An electronic media artist, Alexander Hahn was born and educated in Zurich, Switzerland, and later moved to New York to attend the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 1981-82. He began producing in the late 1970s and his body of work now consists of over 20 video installations, a dozen video tapes, a host of 2D and 3D computer graphics, print material and web content. Hahn's work has been shown world-wide at numerous exhibitions in leading museums and on television programs. He is the recipient of national and international awards and grants from globe-spanning foundations and competitions, a few of which include the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Prize for Young Swiss Art in Zurich and the Grand Prize at the 2e Semaine international de vidéo in Geneva, Switzerland.