The Studio

Our work spans disciplines and geographies: architectural strategy, creative direction, cultural consultancy, art advising, and public art. We are a studio exploring how art, design, and brand can create cultural meaning.

We collaborate with individuals, family offices, museums, private foundations, luxury brands, and visionary leaders to translate ideas into experiences that define place and identity.

At KIN, we believe culture is part of the infrastructure of a healthy, sustainable society. It is deeply human and, at its best, spiritual. The further we immerse ourselves in human cultural understanding, the things made by people navigating what it means to be people, the better we can make experiences, spaces, and products for people.

Dylan Turk

Cultural Leader. Institutional Builder. Curatorial Strategist.

Dylan Turk is a cultural leader whose work sits at the intersection of art, architecture, and public life. He is known for building institutions, shaping cultural ecosystems, and translating artistic vision into enduring public impact. His career reflects a rare combination of curatorial intelligence, institutional leadership, and entrepreneurial execution.

Turk began his career inside a founder-led museum environment, playing a formative role in shaping the creative DNA of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art during its earliest and most ambitious years. Working in close proximity to founder, board leadership, artists, and architects, he helped develop projects that redefined how a museum could operate—artistically, spatially, publicly.

Over time, his role evolved from shaping individual projects to stewarding complex cultural systems: aligning artists, teams, resources, and long-term vision around intuitional impact. At Crystal Bridges, he led and contributed to major architectural and curatorial initiatives including Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bachman-Wilson House, Buckminster Fuller’s Fly’s Eye Dome, All or Nothing, and more than a thirty installations that merged art, architecture, and civic narrative.

Turk also served as the primary interpretive voice for the museum’s campus and architectural projects, authoring and recording the official audio tour still in use today, shaping how millions of visitors understand the relationship between art, place, and public meaning.

Following his institutional tenure, Turk founded KIN, a cultural strategy studio that operates as a platform for building and testing new models of cultural leadership. Through KIN, he has held full creative, financial, and operational responsibility—advising founders, philanthropists, museums, private foundations, developers, and cities on projects spanning architectural strategy, public art, cultural master planning, and creative direction. His portfolio includes AD100-designed private residences, large-scale cultural campuses, wellness and educational institutes, and citywide public art initiatives.

A curator by training and a strategist by instinct, Turk views culture as vital—something that must be built, stewarded, and understood with vibrant creative expression and powerful business principles. His leadership philosophy centers on trust, clarity, and people: empowering strong managers, supporting expert curators and educators, and creating the structural stability that allows creative risk to thrive.

Equally fluent in the studio and the boardroom, Turk speaks the languages of artists, architects, trustees, and capital—translating ambition into form and ideas into lasting public value. His work reflects a belief that institutions are not defined by build alone, but by the people within them, the ideas they protect, and the futures they make possible.

Beauty is the excuse. Obsession the fuel. Meaning the result.