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İz Öztat was born in Istanbul in 1981. She studied Visual Arts and graduated with Honors from Oberlin College in Ohio. She completed her master′s degree in Visual Arts at Sabanci University. She explores how the notion of “sacred” materializes and shapes the body, memory, time, and space. In 2008, with Emincan Alemdaroglu, Öztat founded "cura bodrum residency" in Muğla as an investigation into self-organization and non-institutional support mechanisms. In 2009-2011, she lectured at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Kadir Has University. In 2011, she was the project manager to establish CDA-Projects Grant for Artistic Research and Production. Currently, Öztat is continuing her doctoral degree in Art Practice at Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul.
Solo exhibitions:
2004, Nothing Disappears Without a Trace, Ohio
2005, Love It or Leave It, Ohio
2008, Read/ OKU, PiST, Istanbul
2012, İz, Maçka Art Gallery, Istanbul
Selected group exhibitions:
2008, unitednationsplaza, Mexico,
2008, Resartis General Meeting, Amsterdam,
2008, Prishtina Contemporary Art Library Workshop, Kosovo
2008, Residency Symposium, Cairo
2010, Counting Thoughts, Running Horse Gallery, Beirut
2011, When Ideas Become Crime, Depo, Istanbul
2011, Public Idea, 5533, Istanbul
2011, Second Exhibition, Arter, Istanbul
Reference: rhiz.eu, artsrightsjustice.net, changingidentities.eu, isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu, activity.khas.edu.tr
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