Amber Khan

Give me your thoughts and I’ll give you mine.

Amber Khan is a mixed media artist from Honolulu, Hawaii. Her research and practice explore philosophies around forms of life and living, spatiotemporal identities, nonlinear realities, cultural production, and the natural world. Khan considers herself, primarily a sculptor with a mixed-media approach. She utilizes paper mâché, wood, joint-compound, fiber, paint, and natural objects as an exploration of visual mutations of the natural world that serve as information couriers.

Khan’s childhood growing up in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi as a member of the non-indigenous population and outside of the conventional American experience has disoriented her sense of belonging and place. As the child of an American mother and immigrant Pakistani father, she feels perpetually an outsider in the place she is most familiar with. The paradoxical position places her work in an environment of active realization within reality. Khan is interested in our hybrid experience of identity, of how we belong to place and to each other in a multitude of ways; and how each of us develops our own perspective by synthesizing a myriad influences. Khan sees the natural world as one influence all of us share—a connecting point for our individual and collective histories.

Khan received her BA in Journalism from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu, Hawaii, and her MFA in Sculpture from London Metropolitan University in London, England. Khan’s work has been featured in both regional and international exhibitions including Iceland’s Fresh Winds International Art Biennale, the Cyprus College of Art in Paphos, Cyprus, London, England, and Honolulu, Hawaii. Khan lives and works in London, England.

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