Marisa Morán Jahn Read Bio Collapse
Marisa Morán Jahn is an artist of Ecuadorian/Chinese descent whose work “exemplifies the possibilities of art as social practice” (ArtForum) and explores “civic spaces and the radical art of play” (Chicago Tribune). Working across drawing, public art, and architectural-urban scales, Jahn directly engages new immigrant families and low-wage workers — and millions more via Tribeca Film Festival, United Nations, Obama’s White House, Venice Biennale of Architecture, the Guggenheim Museum, and international media (The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Univision Global, BBC, CNN). Jahn is a Senior Researcher at MIT (her alma mater) and the Director of Integrated Design at Parsons/The New School. With architect Rafi Segal, she is the author of “Design and Solidarity” (Columbia University press); co-founder of Carehaus, the U.S.’s first care-based co-housing project; and involved as a collaborating artist on other architecture-urbanism projects. She is represented by Sapar Contemporary.