Ohan Breiding | Ochi Gallery

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.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.