1990, Adana
Exhibitions & Screenings
2019 Garage Pop Up - No Par
2019 Extra Ordinary- Embark Arts, San Francisco
2019 Ovoid - Playspace Gallery, San Francisco
2019 Video Can Not - Salesforce Tower, San Francisco
2019 Substrate(s) - Hubbel Street Galleries, San Francisco
2019 No Place Else- Hubbel Street Galleries, San Francisco
2019 Gesture in Response - Canyon Cinema, San Francisco
2018 It Literally Is What It Is- Playspace Gallery, San Francisco
2018 Essence of Unity- Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco
2017 Rethinking Heritage - Blok Art Space, Istanbul
2014 Loop - FASS Art Gallery, Istanbul
2012 Following My Dreams - FASS Art Gallery, Istanbul
Teaching
2019
Teaching Assistant - Dystopian Sci-Fi Cinema with Nilgun Bayraktar
2018
Teaching Assistant - Narrative Strategies Workshop with Lynn Marie Kirby
2017
CCA - Junior Review Panelist
Scholarships
2019
Anderson Ranch Scholarship
2017
Koc Foundation Scholarship
Education
MFA Fine Arts - California College of the Arts, San Francisco
2019
BA Visual Arts and Visual Communications Design - Sabanci University, Istanbul
2014
Statement
We live in a world that is becoming highly visual and aesthetics are utilized to connect with individuals’ desires. While computers are integrating into our daily lives, the perception of world is transforming with shortening of distances and durations. I investigate the fluidity of our perception within this visually simulated world we navigate through – either it is a designed digital world or a physical world filled with logos, billboards and various other graphic elements.
In my practice I explore concepts through finding the poetry they carry in mundane. Within the technologically connected routine of the daily, every individual is a profile. We cast a shadow that is a collection of data, whatever we see is the discourse of our world, we reach to any object, location and information with just a simple click and we keep on clicking.