Bio

Candace Jahn is an artist and educator living and working in Portland, Oregon. Her work stems from multiple processes that question the complex relationship to self and explore the concept of home. Jahn has exhibited her work on both coasts including, Duplex Gallery (PDX), Oregon Center for Contemporary Arts (PDX), Photographic Resource Center (Boston, MA), and Airwaves BK (Brooklyn, NY) amongst others. Her work has been recently published in Los Angeles (Midnite Snack), Hong Kong (XinSai Magazine) and for the cover of If You Have to Go, a book of poetry by Katie Ford published by Graywolf Press (Minneapolis, MN). Jahn received her MFA in Visual Studies from The Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. She attended the Caldera Arts residency and was the recipient of the Society of Photographic Education Mid-Atlantic Scholarship. She is the co-founder and curator of Decorative Shred, a DIY pop up gallery space in SE Portland, Oregon.