Ned Kahn is an environmental artist and sculptor, famous in particular for museum exhibits he has built for the Exploratorium

Exploratorium

The Exploratorium is a museum in San Francisco with over 475 participatory exhibits, all of them made onsite, that mix science and art. It also aims to promote museums as informal education centers....

 in San Francisco. His works usually involves capturing an invisible aspect of nature and making it visible; examples include building facades that move in waves in response to wind; indoor tornadoes and vortices made of fog, steam, or fire; a transparent sphere containing water and sand which, when spun, erodes a beach-like ripple pattern into the sand surface. In 2003 Kahn collaborated with Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc. on a piece for the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh is a children's museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is in the Allegheny Center neighborhood in Pittsburgh's Northside.- History :...

 consisting of hundreds of movable flaps that respond to the wind creating visible patterns. Kahn won a MacArthur Foundation

MacArthur Fellows Program

The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T...

 "genius grant" fellowship in 2003, and the National Design Award for environmental design in 2005.

Kahn lives and works in California.

External links

• http://www.nedkahn.com
• http://greenmuseum.org/kahn