b.1980 Istanbul  

 

EDUCATION

2004 - 2007   Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA, MFA, Sculpture

1998 - 2002    Marmara University, Istanbul, BFA, Sculpture

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 Unemployed Objects • Traces of Vitality, Galeri Bosfor, Istanbul

2015          Meta Takeover, START Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London

2014          Forever Blind, Art ON, Istanbul 

2011           Mini Market of Happiness, Art ON, Istanbul

2010          mash-up, Bilsar Building, Istanbul

2007          Nothing Personal, Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco  

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 Dry Summer, Eldem Art Space, Eskisehir

2022 A Foreign Eye, Nazim Hikmet Culture Center, Bursa

2021 Summer Olympics, Art ON, Bodrum

2021 Chosen, Ferda Art Platform, Istanbul

2020 Eternal Summer, Art ON, Istanbul

2018 Ghosts, Redbull Art Around Arnavutköy, Istanbul

2017 Guest: Unexpected, Mixer, Istanbul

2016          Nature Morte, Plato Sanat, Istanbul

2015          Hidden, Overthose - ALAN Istanbul, Istanbul

2014          The Spirit of Paper, ALAN Istanbul, Istanbul

2012          Tessellation Make Up, Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul

2012          Underconstruction, Apartment Project, Berlin

2012          Encounters – Turkish Contemporary Art in Korea, Ara Art Center, Seoul

2012          In Growing up Amid the Historical Mysteries of Proximity: Pros & Cons of Being Neighbors, ITS-Z1, Belgrade

2011           Re-Locate, Apartment Project, Cite Roumelie, Istanbul

2010          Free Fall, Apartment Project, Istanbul

2010          Mind Models: The First Show, Borusan Music House, Istanbul

2010          You Are Here, Portable Art Project 8, Istanbul

2009          Material.Picture, Operation Room, Istanbul

2008          Urban Jealousy, The 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran

2008          Artist in Residency 2008, AtelierFrankfurt, Frankfurt

2006          Post - Post card 10, The LAB, San Francisco

2006          SF Open Studios Exhibition, SomARTS, San Francisco

2006          Opus, Lolita, New York City

2006          17th Annual California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, UC Davis

2006          La Femme, Superfine, Brooklyn

2005          Big Bang, Academy of Art University, San Francisco

2005          Origin, Place Gallery, San Francisco

2002          Emerging Sculptors, ISO Art Gallery, Istanbul

 

AWARDS

2004 -2006    Fulbright Scholarship for graduate study  

 

RESIDENCIES & WORKSHOPS

2022 Nilufer Municipality - Ecology Workshop, Misi Village, Bursa

2012                Under-construction, collaborative workshop project, Apartment Project, Berlin

2009               Re-Locate, collaborative workshop project, Apartment Project, Plovdiv, Athens, Skopje, Prizren, Prishtina, Istanbul

2008 - 2010   Borusan Contemporary AIR program, Art Center / Istanbul, Istanbul

2008               Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center & City of Frankfurt AIR program, Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt