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Osman Bozkurt was born in Istanbul in 1970. He studied Photography and graduated from Mimar Sinan University in 1994. He is a co-founder of PiST/// Interdisciplinary Project Space (2006), and co-editor of LiST, Istanbul’s contemporary art list (2007). He works with both video and photography. Much of his work explores the modern urban experience in Turkey. Since 2001, Bozkurt has taught at Yıldız Technical University and Kadir Has University. He has had several solo exhibitions and participated in many group contemporary art exhibitions in Turkey and abroad. Currently, Bozkurt lives and works in Istanbul.
Selected exhibitions:
2003, Auto-Park / The Highway Parks of Istanbul
2007, Global Cities, Tate Modern, London, UK;
2007, EurHope 1153 / Contemporary Art from Bosphorus, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Udine
2008, Candid Stories, Insa Art Space of the Art Council Korea, Seoul
2008, Becoming Istanbul Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt
2008, TALES AROUND THE PAVEMENT: Chapter Two, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo
2009, TRANSIT-2, Madre Museum, ProjectRoom, Napoli
2009, Istanbul, Traversée, Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille
2009, Creative Destruction, OUTLET//Independent Art Space, Istanbul
Reference: universes-in-universe.org, aptglobal.org, “Unleashed Contemporary Art from Turkey”, (ed. Hossein Amirsadeghi, London: TransGlobe Publishing, 2010), p. 106-107.
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