Marisa Morán Jahn

Marisa Morán Jahn (SMVisS ’07) 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 medium and scale, Jahn directly engages new immigrant families and low-wage workers — and millions more via Tribeca Film Festival, The 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 has received awards from Sundance, Creative Capital, Anonymous Was a Woman, and The Joyce Foundation. She is a Senior Researcher at MIT (her alma mater) and the Director of Integrated Design at Parsons/The New School. With architect and MIT professor
Rafi Segal, she co-authored “Design and Solidarity” (Columbia University Press); co-founded Carehaus, the U.S.’s first care-based co-housing project; co-created the HOOPcycle (think MesoAmerican basketball meets tricycle), and collaborates on various architectural/urban-scale projects. She is represented by Sapar Contemporary.

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