Nedunuri Kahn lives and works in New York City, where she is the founder and director of Spill 180. She is also a core collaborator of Yale University’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Media. Her current focus in academia and the arts builds on senior industry experience at Google and McKinsey & Company.
M.A., NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study; Interdisciplinary Design; Global Research Fellow
New York University
B.S., NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; Media, Culture, Communication
Founder & Director
Design Consultant
Creative Circle
Maya Lin Studios
Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media
Director’s Fellow
Research Fellow
Critic/Student Mentor
Strategic Advisor
Google: DeepMind, Gemini AI
Senior Design Program Manager
Design Program Manager
Google: Consumer Product Innovation
Design Program Manager
McKinsey & Company: McKinsey Academy
Design Program Manager
McKinsey & Company: McKinsey Digital Labs
User Experience Consultant
Design & Digital Strategy Analyst
& PANELS
Mechanical Eye Course— Yale School of Architecture (ARCH 2238), Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media, Yale University.
Vital Matter Panel— ECOLOGIES with Kate Wong: New Art Dealers Alliance Miami 2025, Ice Palace Studios, Miami Basel.
Ultra Space & Heat Death of the Universe Lecture — Illuminations: CCAM Symposium 2025, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media (CCAM), Yale University.
Living Forever in the Reversible Destiny Lofts Panel — Adaptation/s: Spring 2024 CCAM Ultra Space Symposium, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media, Yale University.
Ultra Space Lecture— Adaptation/s Spring 2024 CCAM Ultra Space Symposium, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media, Yale University.
Ultra Space Tokyo — Takashi Ikegami AI Lab, School of Engineering / Design & Media Studies, University of Tokyo.
Ultra Space Tokyo — James Jack Art Lab, School of Creative Science and Engineering / Media Studies, Waseda University.
Design Rituals for Bodies in Space — Beyond the Cradle 2023, MIT Media Lab.
Bodies in Space — Workshop at MIT Media Lab
Bodies in Space — Workshop at Seattle Museum of Flight
Bodies in Space — Workshop at The New York Times
Body/Cyborg/Alien: Embodying What’s Out There Panel (with NASA’s Ravi Kumar Kopparappu)— CCAM Ultra Space Symposium 2023, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media, Yale University.
Living in Space Panel (with Ariel Ekblaw)— CCAM Ultra Space Symposium 2023, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media, Yale University.
The Mechanical Artifact: Ultra Space 2021 (with Astronaut Don Pettit) — Yale School of Architecture, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media, Yale University.
Design Research Foundations with Heidi Brandt— Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
& MULTIMEDIA
Book, Yale University, 2026
Co-authored with Dana Karwas
With contributions from Trattie Davies, Ariel Ekblaw, Tiri Kananuruk, Kepler Karwas, Taylor Levy, Sarah Oppenheimer, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Taylor Rees, Alexis Sablone, Che-Wei Wang, and Pamela Zoline
BEANS
Curatorial Research Magazine, Spill 180
“Mirror, Mirror,” with ST Luk and Dana Karwas, BEANS no. 1, 2025
“On Forgiveness,” with Qingyuan Deng, BEANS no. 2, 2025
“Sublime & Unknown,” with Danielle Ezzo, BEANS no. 3, 2025
“Clockwork,” with Whitney Mallett, BEANS no. 4, 2025
“Tidal Locking,” with Charlotte Youkilis, BEANS no. 5, 2025
“Offset Attunement,” with Sarah Oppenheimer, BEANS no. 6, 2025
“A Cry for a Way of Being,” with Caroline Campos, BEANS no. 7, 2026
“Interview with Tokyo-Based Scientist Takashi Ikegami”
The Yale Maquette no. 4: Chaos and Control
Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, 2025
“Thirty Six Point Eight Hours at Spill 180”
The Yale Maquette no. 4: Chaos and Control, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, 2025
Ultra Space Printed Volume 2023
Essay Anthology, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, 2024
Ultra Space: Terra Cosma
Short Film, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, 2022
The Celestial World of CCAM
Podcast series, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media
“What is CCAM?” 2020
“I am Alan Turing,” 2021
“ULTRA SPACE // Don Pettit Part 1,” 2021
“ULTRA SPACE // Don Pettit Part 2,” 2021
Design Thinking Roundtable
Podcast series, DESIS Lab at Nova SBE and Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace, 2018-2020
“Disability-Led Design: Inclusive Design Futures”
“Empowerment through Play: Inclusive Design”
“Equality vs. Equity: Intro to Inclusive Design”
“On Co-Creation in Sustainable Innovation”
“On Human Behavior as a Medium”
“Designers and Consultants”
Broodworks, 2026
Women-Led Galleries
Artsy and Artnet, 2026
New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Miami
Ice Palace Studios, Miami Basel, 2025
Split Level Fair
Rimadesio Studios, 2025
Art in General Benefit Auction
YveYANG Gallery, 2025
Spill 180
Waves, 2025
Gauze, 2025
Passion for the Void, 2025
High Dynamic Range, 2025
Thirty Six Point Eight Hours, 2025
Mercy Clubhouse, 2025
Doliolida, 2025
Rituals of Recursion, 2025
Sharpe Surface Residue, 2024
Spill Inaugural, 2024
Kaufman, Toby. “Independent Curator Kate Wong Organizing NADA Miami’s ‘Curated Spotlight’ Section.” ARTnews. 2025.
Ezzo, Danielle. “Anti‑Solutionism as a Curatorial Framework.” Ill Angels Substack, 2025.
Tafoya, Harry. “May’s Must-See Art Shows in NYC and Beyond.” PAPER Magazine. 2025.
Deng, Qingyuan. “Quori Theodor and Bobbi Salvör Menuez host ‘Synanthropy’ at Spill 180” Purple Fashion Magazine. 2025.
Kwak, Lily. “Creighton Baxter and Agnes Walden Take Us Inside Their ‘Mercy Clubhouse’.” IMPULSE Magazine. 2025.
Towfiq, Shirin. “Gauze.” Artforum (Artguide MustSee), Spill 180, Brooklyn, NY. 2025.
Metakis, Marc. “McKinsey Academy celebrates reaching over one million participants.” McKinsey & Company. 2024.
Hsiao, Sissie. “Bard becomes Gemini: Try Ultra 1.0 and a new mobile app today.” The Keyword. 2024.
O’Connor, Hailey. “Ultra Space Lab at CCAM.” YaleVentures. 2024.
Ventura, Bryan. “CCAM Kicks Off Two-Day Symposium, ‘Ultra Space’.” Yale Daily News. 2023.
Cummings, Mike. “Yale project brings creative expression to space flight.” YaleNews. 2022.
Provost’s Global Research Initiatives, Graduate Student Fellow, New York University. New York, NY. 2019.
Interdisciplinary Award for Academic Excellence, New York University. New York, NY. 2019.
Community Service Award, Presidential Volunteer Service Award (PSVA). 2019.
Community Service Award, Presidential Volunteer Service Award (PSVA). 2013.
Community Service Award, Presidential Volunteer Service Award (PSVA). 2011.
I founded and direct Spill 180, a contemporary art and research space in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Through exhibitions, publications, and public programs, Spill 180 brings artists, architects, writers, and researchers into dialogue. Its program centers experimentation across visual art, design, poetic architecture, and emerging technologies, creating space for unexpected connections between disciplines and ideas.
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Margit Endormie, 1989
Photo: Ronald Amstutz
Dia Art Foundation, New York.
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Not to Be the Second Winner
Aldo Rossi chair on base
1987
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Installation view, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, May 5–July 29, 1995
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Installation
Felt, stool, sculptor’s trestle, copper, tin, wire and rubber
Photograph by Volker Döhne
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Continuous Profile
Sculpture, 2004
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A Zero Gravity Proxy for Objects and Architecture
A design book I co-authored with Dana Karwas and produced with Olga Kedya and Xiwen Zhang. The publication captures more than six years of Ultra Space research and project explorations, alongside design awakening contributions by Trattie Davies, Ariel Ekblaw, Tiri Kananuruk, Kepler Karwas, Taylor Levy, Sarah Oppenheimer, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Taylor Rees, Alexis Sablone, Che-Wei Wang, and Pamela Zoline.
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Anthony d’Offay
Paperback, London, 1972
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Factory Records — FAC 62
UK, September 1982
Graphic design by Peter Saville
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Three works: Golden Horn Drawings (from America Series), 1989
Graphite and watercolor on book page.
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Announcement card
Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles
Marie-Puck Broodthaers
Jan 31 – Mar 9, 1991
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ZEIT WVZ. 1379 / 1993
ZEIT WVZ. 1410 / 1993
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