Painter Scott Kahn received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from Rutgers. In 1968, Kahn attended the Art Students League in New York, where he studied under the artist Theodoros Stamos. Although he had been producing work since the 1970s, he began gaining traction in 2018. Kahn uses his paintings as a “visual diary.” That does not mean that he only paintings realistic pieces taken from his everyday life, but rather he paints all the different strains of life that contribute to and affect his art.

Kahn has received awards from the Pollock Krasner Foundation and a residency at the Edward Albee Foundation in Montauk. In addition, Kahn has been featured in numerous exhibitions in New York and abroad, including the Long Museum, Shanghai, the ICA Miami, Florida, and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.