KC Ahonen (b.1998) is an interdisciplinary artist from Chicago, IL, who uses photography, printmaking, bookbinding, and sculpture as tools to think about the intersection of place and identity. He is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 2024), where he studied photography and book design under the influence of mentors such as Oliver Sann, Clarissa Bonet, and Robert Clarke-Davis.

Ahonen is best known for his recent series The Tsushima Cyanotypes, where he traded in the concrete jungle of city streets in his neighborhood for the expansive virtual meadows and forests of Tsushima Island as a new muse for street photography at the beginning of the COVID Pandemic. The Tsushima Cyanotypes have been appreciated by collectors, exhibited across North America, and were recently published together in Ahonen’s first photo book of the same name by Soft Grain Books.

Most recently, Ahonen has begun to cement his commitment to the genre of travel photography through his current series, All of the Greenvilles, in which Ahonen is visiting communities around the world named “Greenville” in order to better understand his hometown of the same name.

More information about Ahonen can be found at his own website here:

https://www.kcahonen.com/