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Yasemin Özcan was born in Istanbul in 1974. She graduated from the Ceramic Department at Mimar Sinan University in 1997. In 2002, she received the Success Award in the 21st Contemporary Artists Exhibition. In 2006, she participated in the “transfer” project, which was held in North Ren Westfalia, Germany. In 2009, Özcan Kaya attended Can Xalant Artist Exchange Program in Mataro. She has given her talk several times on “distilled” at K2 Art Center in Izmir (2006), “transfer” at Ludwig Forum Museum, Aachen (2007), and “best case scenario” at manzara-perpectives, Istanbul (2009). Currently, Özcan Kaya lives and works in Istanbul.
Selected Exhibitions:
1997, “Soup Operas Synopses” (installation)
1998, “Where is the Black Cat?” (video installation)
2002, “Together and Solo Songs” (video installation)
2003, “For whom ever my appreciate it” (installation)
2003, “Exit” (installation)
2004, “Elmaslı Apartment” (video)
2004, “Bambi” (video)
2005, “Column” (photograph installation)
2005, “Let’s Be the Kids who Don’t Want to get” (photograph installation)
2006, “in front of school” (video)
2006, “Tr-answer” (photograph installation)
2007, “Transfer Visiting” (video)
2007, “Political World Map scale: 1/2007” (photograph)
2007, “Not to be involved in” (photograph installation)
2008, "untitled" (video)
2009, “Threehundredone” (necklace)
2009, “Threehundredone” (video installation)
Reference: yaseminozcankaya.com, karsi.com, apartmentproject.com, canxalant.org, Unleashed Contemporary Art from Turkey, (ed. Hossein Amirsadeghi, London: TransGlobe Publishing, 2010), p. 190-191.
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