The Studio

KIN is the creative practice of Dylan Turk—a studio exploring how art, design, and brand can create cultural meaning.

Our work spans disciplines and geographies: architectural strategy, creative direction, cultural consultancy, art advising, and public art.

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 — as essential as roads, schools, or housing.

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.

My knowledge in this space is firsthand and profound. I helped open and build a museum in a place that had never had one before, and I watched people look at masterpieces for the first time in their lives. I’ve seen what art can do to the human mind and heart.

That understanding is the foundation of KIN: a studio for those who want to do something bold, visionary, and real — to make their brands, buildings, and ideas reach the deepest possible level of sophistication, empathy, and human connection.

Dylan Turk

Curator. Strategist. Builder of Cultural Legacy.

Dylan Turk has spent his career shaping what culture looks like — and what it feels like.

A curator by training and a strategist by instinct, he helped define the creative DNA of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, curating Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bachman-Wilson House, Buckminster Fuller’s Fly’s Eye Dome, All or Nothing, and over a dozen contemporary installations that merged art, architecture, and civic story.

As founder of KIN, Turk now advises the world’s most discerning clients — from philanthropists to developers, museums to private families — guiding them in how art, design, and narrative can transform perception and create value. His portfolio spans AD100- designed private residences, cultural campuses, wellness institutes, and citywide public art initiatives.

Turk’s influence moves fluidly between the studio and the boardroom. He speaks the language of museums, architects, and billionaires — translating ambition into experience and beauty into infrastructure.

Equal parts tastemaker and builder, his work defines a new model of cultural leadership: intuitive, intelligent, and impossible to imitate.

Beauty is the excuse. Obsession the fuel. Confession the cure.

Beyond the studio, Dylan’s ongoing writing examines beauty, ambition, and the creative economy—exploring the human side of art and labor.

His Substack, Dirty Hustle, offers a candid, lyrical look at what it means to build a life in culture.