Amber Khan

Amber Khan (b. 1993, Honolulu) is a sculptor and painter from Hawaiʻi, currently based in London. She holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and an MFA in Sculpture from London Metropolitan University, and her recent work is increasingly rooted in Hawaiian place and ʻāina-based collaboration.

Approach. Khan works primarily in sculpture with a mixed-media hand — paper mâché, wood, joint compound, fiber, paint, and natural objects — treating her forms as “information couriers”: visual mutations of the natural world that probe forms of life, spatiotemporal identity, and cultural production. In Niu Systems she employs niu cordage alongside wood and metal, binding organic and constructed elements where every binding carries both physical and cultural tension.

Selected works & exhibitions. Beneath the Palm, Next to the Matson Container (2025, Aupuni Space); ʻUmeke Lāʻau, a Hawaiʻi Triennial 2025 collaboration with Meleanna Aluli Meyer and Kainoa Gruspe; Recollecting Poi, Pikake, and Paniolos (2022). She has exhibited and held residencies in Iceland, Cyprus, Croatia, England, and Hawaiʻi.

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