Aunia Kahn

Aunia Marie Kahn (born December 5, 1977) is an American contemporary painter and curator. She was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and currently lives in Boise, Idaho.

Kahn's work was first exhibited publicly in December 2005 as part of the Voices Within Surviving Through the Arts show mounted by the St. Louis Artists' Guild. Her work has been shown at the San Diego Art Institute, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, IMOCA, St. Louis Art Museum, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Mitchell Museum, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.

Self-taught, Kahn works in gouache, acrylic, watercolor and colored pencil. Her Contemporary Symbolist Folk paintings weave symbolic storytelling with woman, symbols and nature.

Kahn's work has been featured in My Modern Met, Colossal, Create! Magazine, Prevention Magazine, and Booooooom.

An interest in tarot a collection of pieces loosely centered on the lowbrow art style, representing the 22 cards of the Major Arcana and a 23rd piece representing the back of the cards. The collection was exhibited at La Luz de Jesus gallery, Los Angeles, California, and was published as a coffee table book and a card deck. As well as Kahn herself, artists featured included Molly Crabapple, David Stoupakis, Chet Zar, Angie Mason, Daniel Martin Diaz and Chris Mars.

Her piece, Rousing the Whirlwind, was chosen by Les Bourgeois vineyard, Rocheport, Missouri, to appear on the label of its limited edition 2005 Syrah. The wine went on sale in 2007.