Dabin Ahn Korean, b. 1988

Dabin Ahn is a Chicago-based visual artist whose practice merges realism and abstraction, creating multilayered illusions that explore the interplay between harmony and chaos, reality, and representation. His works, inspired by both classical and modern influences, blur the boundaries between the material and the fictive, evoking emotional depth through trompe l’oeil techniques and philosophical reflections on human experience. Ahn received his BFA (2016) and MFA (2020) in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Harper’s, Christie’s, Marvin Gardens, Selenas Mountain, and Long Story Short (New York), Sargent’s Daughters, The Hole, Make Room, Ochi (Los Angeles), The Green Gallery (Milwaukee), Edgewood College Gallery (Madison), Mindy Solomon (Miami), Hyde Park Art Center, Research House for Asian Art, ARTRUSS (Chicago), among others.