Amber Khan

Amber is an artist from Honolulu, Hawaii. Her practice explores philosophies and materials around forms of life and living, cultural production, in-between identities, food, nonlinear realities, and the natural world. Khan is primarily a sculptor, working with wood and mixed-media. She is also interested in both genealogy of material and social practice as a form of carrying continuity and muscle memory through the hands.

As the child of an American mother and immigrant Pakistani father, her senses are steeped with active realization and attunement to place. Her childhood and in Honolulu built an internal stacked landscape within her sense of identity. Khan is interested in 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. She 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.

Amber lives and works in Puʻuloa, Oahu.

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