Belly of a Glacier, 2024
HD video, sound 32:52 min
Photographic installation from Frac, Carquefou, France,
Still Life with Aphrodisiacs and Friends, 2018
Digital c-print
20 x 30 in (50.8 x 76.2 cm)
Still Life with Time Removed, 2015
Digital C Print
20 x 30 in (50.8 x 76.2 cm)
Kokobebe, 2019
Ceramics, glaze, incense (smoke), Beach sand
12 x 5.5 x 7 in (30.5 x 14 x 17.8 cm)
Sappho, 2019
Ceramics, glaze, incense (smoke), Beach sand
12 x 10 x 9 in (30.5 x 25.4 x 22.9 cm)
Home, 2020
digital c print
24 x 20 in (61 x 50.8 cm)
Apex, 2020
digital c print
24 x 16 in (61 x 40.6 cm)
Rafter 4, 2023
Digital c-print
11 1/2 x 14 in (29.2 x 35.6 cm)
Tōhoku Japan, 2011-Pacific North- west USA, 2022 (still), 2023
Made in collaboration with Shoghig Halajian HD Video 5:58'
Souvenir (still), 2023
Made in collaboration with Shoghig Halajian HD Video, Sound 15:24'
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OHAN BREIDINGSOUVENIRMarch 10 - April 28, 2023HALLWALLS CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER, BUFFALO, NY -
MARCEL PARDO ARIZA AND OHAN BREIDINGQUEERISHOctober 28 - December 15, 2023Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA -
OHAN BREIDINGZEITSeptember 22, 2023 - January 14, 2024Kunsthaus Zürich
Ohan Breiding is a Swiss-American artist working with photography, photographic and filmic archives, video, and collaboration to reinterpret historical events. Raised in a Swiss village and living in New York City (Lenape lands), they employ a trans-feminist lens to the discussion of ecological care in order to bring the past into a meaningful transformative relation with the present. Through their multimedia installations, Breiding amplifies the systemic failures and violence of the Anthropocene.
Ohan Breiding (b. 1981) received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA and a BA from Scripps College in Claremont, CA. Their work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Eupen, Belgium; FRAC des Pays de la Loire in Carquefou and Nantes, France; Kunsthaus Zürich in Switzerland; Haus N in Athens, Greece; Dilalica Gallery in Barcelona, Spain; Galería Casa Lu in Mexico City, Mexico; Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, NY; Oceanside Museum of Art in Oceanside, CA as a part of Getty PST ART; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, LAXART, Human Resources, the Armory Center for the Arts, and OCHI in Los Angeles, CA; Elga Wimmer Gallery in New York, NY; Southern Exposure and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA; the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, CA; and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, CA. Forthcoming solo exhibitions will take place at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA and A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, NY in 2025. Breiding is the recipient of numerous awards including a Swiss International Film Festival Award; a 2024 Puffin Foundation Grant; a 2023 Flaherty Film Fellowship; a 2023 Hellman Grant; a 2021 TBA21 Ocean Space Fellowship in Venice, Italy; and a 2017 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. Their work has been featured in publications including Artforum, Artillery Magazine, Bomb Magazine, e-flux, The Vassar Review, Hyperallergic, and Art in America. Belly of a Glacier was published in 2023 by Nico Fontana Press and launched at Dia Chelsea and NY Art Book Fair. Breiding is a facilitator of the arts teaching as an Assistant Professor in the Art History and Studio Art department at Williams College in Williamstown, MA. Breiding is represented by OCHI.
EDUCATION
2012
MFA, Photo Media, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2006
BA, Art History & Fine Art, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
SELECTED SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2012
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2025
Support for Artists Grant, New York State Council on the Arts, New York, NY
2024
WASPS Artist Residency, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Artist in Residence, Fire Island Artist Residency, Fire Island, NY
Artist Residency, Triangle Arts, Brooklyn, Ny
Fellowship, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, Ny
2023
Hellman Fellowship, San Francisco, CA
Arts Center Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Governor’s Island, NY
The Flaherty Film Fellowship, International Film Seminars, Brooklyn, NY
2022
Tenure, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Artist in Residence, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Nominee, Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, Italy
2021
TBA21 Ocean Fellowship, Venice, Italy
Swarm II, Public Billboard Commission, 14x48 Public Art Projects, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
2020
The Rebel Body, Short Film Award, Swiss International Film Festival, Aubonne, Switzerland
Field Workshop, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Los Angeles, CA
2019
Millay Colony Artist Residency, Austerlitz, NY
2018
Shandaken Residency, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY
Casa Lu Artist Residency, Mexico City, Mexico
2017
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant
2015
Artist Residency, The World That Begins Where Our Skin Ends, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2014
Artist Residency, Summerforum, Joshua Tree, CA
2012
DAAD Grant Recipient, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, New York, NY
Artist Residency, Arteles, Finland
Braunschweig Kunstschule, Germany
2011
Jeunes Talents Residency, Arles & Paris, France
Dean's Grant, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Bartmen Grant, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2010
Ahmanson Foundation Scholarship, Los Angeles, CA
Dean's Grant, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2006
Lucia Suffel Award, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Mellon Grant, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
SELECTED LECTURES & ARTIST TALKS
2024
Artist Talk, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Artist Talk, SIU College of Arts and Media, Southern Illinois, IL
2023
Artist Talk, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France
Artist Talk, New School, New York, NY
Seattle ASAP Conference, Seattle, WA
Artist Talk, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Talk, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
2022
Artist Talk, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Beyond All Measures: The Sea, The Sky, The Horizon of our Transitional Present, Fulcrum Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Without Sun, Amherst College Artist Talk Series, Amherst, MA
2021
Future Plastic Archive, TBA-21 Academy Ocean Uni, Venice, Italy
Breathing Together, TBA-21 Academy Ocean Space, Venice, Italy
Oakley Center Salon with Alena Williams and Brittany Meché, Williamstown, MA
2020
Assistant Professor of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Resisting Now: Art and Policy Talk, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Talk, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA
Artist Talk, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Artist Talk, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
2019
Assistant Professor of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Visiting Professor, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, CA
Artist Talk, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Artist Talk, Cypress College, Cypress, CA
2018
Lecturer, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
The Rebel Body, Anna Göldi Museum, Glarus, Switzerland
2017
Artist Talk, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Artist Talk, Queer Lecture Series, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
2016
Artist Talk, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA
Just Speak Nearby: The Politics & Practices of Art Writing, 356 Mission Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
at land’s edge, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, CA
TIR Journal, Pieter Space, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Artist Talk, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Artist Talk, Walt Disney Family Museum, San Francisco, CA
Artist Talk, New York Film Academy, Burbank, CA
TIR Talk, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Talk, Analog Dissident, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Talk, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
KChung Radio, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Artist Talk, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Museum of Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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Ohan Breiding
What Do Artists Bring to a Potluck?
The New York Times Style Magazine
November 13, 2025
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Ohan Breiding
Why the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Is More Relevant Than Ever
Observer
July 15, 2025
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Ohan Breiding
Arrival launches a fresh take on the art fair
By The Way Berkshires
June 21, 2025
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Ohan Breiding
Ohan Breiding Mourns Glacial Bodies
Frieze
June 19, 2025
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Ohan Breiding
Moving Exhibition Ruminates on the Emotional Complexities of Disappearing Glaciers [Interview]
My Modern Met
April 20, 2025
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Ohan Breiding’s ‘Belly of a Glacier’ at Mass MoCA is a personal lament about loss
Boston Globe
April 17, 2025
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Ohan Breiding
Archive and Absence: Ohan Breiding
Impulse Mag
April 11, 2025
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Ohan Breiding
Beside the sun
Meer
April 3, 2025
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Ohan Breiding
Art Exhibition Immortalizes Switzerland’s Rhône Glacier, Predicted to Disappear by 2050
Smithsonian Magazine
April 2, 2025
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Ohan Breiding
Beside the Sun
A.I.R. Gallery
March 22 - April 20, 2025
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Ohan Breiding
Weekend Guide: Selecta Series, House is Liberation, and More
BK Mag
March 20, 2025
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Ohan Breiding
“Ecofeminism, Art, and Environmental Justice” at the ArtCenter
ArtCenter South Campus, Pasadena, CA
March 21, 2025
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Ohan Breiding
Massachusetts museum presents an artist's intimate portrait of a dying glacier
The Art Newspaper
March 17, 2025
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Ohan Breiding
At Mass MoCA , Ohan Breiding’s 'Belly of a Glacier' explores loss, memory and ecological care
The Berkshire Eagle
February 20, 2025
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Belly of a Glacier
MASS MoCA
February 1 - December 2025
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Ohan Breiding
Bits and Bytes
Berkshire Edge
January 28, 2025
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Ohan Breiding
13 art exhibits to explore this winter
WBUR
January 16, 2025
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Ohan Breiding
Pick of the Week
What's on Los Angeles
December 19, 2024
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Ohan Breiding
Queer Animality Roundtable
Frieze
November 14, 2024
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Ohan Breiding
Oceanside Museum of Art receives NEA grant for new exhibit
The Coast News Group
June 24, 2024
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Ohan Breiding
Summer 2024 Artists in Residence
Fire Island Residency
May 6, 2024
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Ohan Breiding
Dilalica (Barcelona) presents 'Circulations,' an exhibition that explores imaginaries around water
Exibart
February 16, 2024
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Ohan Breiding
In Conversation: Souvenir
Speciwoman
January 14, 2024
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Marcel Pardo Ariza & Ohan Breiding
Nothing more Joy-ish than Queer-ish
The Scripps Voice
November 10, 2023
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Ohan Breiding
TIME: From Dürer to Bonvicini
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
September 22, 2023 - January 14, 2024
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Ohan Breiding
Before Law hosts The Rebel Body
September 5 - 30, 2023
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Ohan Breiding
Belly of a Glacier and Souvenir
Ohan Breiding Interviewed by Katherine Brewer Ball
Bomb Magazine
April 12, 2023
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Ohan Breiding
Belly of a Glacier
Eli Marsh Gallery
March 20 – April 17, 2023
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Ohan Breiding
Souvenir
Collaborative project with Shoghig Halagian
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
March 10 – April 28, 2023
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Ohan Breiding
After the End
NADA Online Exhibition
Curated by Catherine Taft
March 27 – May 5, 2023
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Ohan Breiding
Hyperallergic
An Exhibition of Cat Art Worthy of a Meowseum
December 12, 2022
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Ali Liebegott and Ohan Breiding
EVEN A CAT CAN LOOK AT THE QUEEN
Group Show
Mrs. Gallery
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Ohan Brieding
Group Show:
Col\ecteurs: "The Wave: An Exhibition"
6/14/22
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Ohan Breiding
ARTILLERY:
Ten More to Remember -
or simply bring to Los Angeles
1/26/22
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Ohan Breiding
Place: Postcard Series
A collaboration with Shoghig Halajian
to support the Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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Ohan Breiding
SWIMMER
petty cash
09/04/21 - 09/15/21
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Ohan Breiding
Arte Realizzata
An Impassioned Conversation
with Ohan Breiding
6/27/21
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Ohan Breiding
Artillery
Ohan Breiding
at Ochi Projects
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Ohan Breiding
RED PATIENCE
Bass & Reiner Gallery
04.17.2021 - 06.05.2021
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Ohan Breiding
TBA21 Call for applications:
OCEAN FELLOWSHIP 2021
TBA21–Academy at Ocean Space, Venice
Mar–Jun, 2021 & Jun–Oct, 2021
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Ohan Breiding
KCRW Events
Ohan Breiding at Ochi Projects
Feb 6 - Mar 20, 2021
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Ohan Breiding
PICTURES AT EXHIBITIONS: ARTS CALENDAR: FEBRUARY 4-8
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Ohan Breiding
The Rebel Body will be screening at IKOB (Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst) as a part of the exhibition, Before the Beginning, alongside works by The Commons (Mireya Lucio & Sallie Merkel), Vika Kirchenbauer, Ben Russel, and Antoinette Zwirchmayr. This is an in-person event.
IKOB
Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst
Rotenberg 12b
4700 Eupen
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Ohan Breiding
ICA LA Field Workshop: Action Projects
Radical Pedagogies —A project that instigates conversation, thinking, and action around the state of education and the ways it re-inscribes the violences and inequities it purports to undo.
Artists: Johanna Breiding, EJ Hill, Dylan Mira, Litia Perta, Kandis Williams.
*Pre-register to attend via zoom required.
AUGUST 20, 2020 from 2-5PM
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ARCHIVE MACHINES at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG)
The juried exhibition brings together 44 artists. RESISTING (released August 13, 2020) features: Ohan Breiding, Woohee Cho, Boz Garden,
Malisa Humphrey, Nova Jiang, Farrah Karapetian, Keaton Macon, Silvi Naçi, Amir Saadiq and Keith Walsh.
JULY 30 - NOVEMBER 1, 2020
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Ohan Breiding
Switzerland International Film Festival 2020
The Rebel Body - Johanna Breiding and Shoghig Halajian
Winners of Best Films about Swiss Culture
May 25 - May 29, 2020
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Ohan Breiding
Sojourn curated by Amalia Vekri
The Rebel Body (2019), directed by Johanna Breiding and Shoghig Halajian
Haus N Athen, Athens, Greece
May 18 - June 30, 2020
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Ohan Breiding
Ohan Breiding's "Swarm II" installed as billboard
14X48, New York, NY
February 13 - March 15, 2020
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EXHIBITION WALKTHROUGHS:
Conrad Ruíz in conversation with Ryan Perez
Johanna Breiding in conversation with Jennifer Moon
Saturday June 1, 12-1 pm
Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA -
Ohan Breiding included in Offal
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
August 15 - September 29
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