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Pınar Yolaçan was born in Ankara in 1981. She studied fashion at the Central Saint Martin′s College of Art and Design, and Fine Art Media at the Chelsea School of Art before graduating from the Cooper Union with a BFA in 2004. She has had solo exhibitions at many places including Rivington Arms Gallery in New York, Yapi Kredi Foundation in Istanbul, Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki and Center for Contemporary Art in Lagos. She has also participated in many group exhibitions such as Art Robe, UNESCO (Paris), Art and Commerce Festival of Emerging Photographers (New York), Turkish Realities: Positions in Contemporary Photography from Turkey, Photography Forum International (Frankfurt), Tracking Traces, KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki), The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography (New York), Istanbul Next Wave: Istanbul Modern Collection at Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin), Greater New York at PS1, Frieze Art Fair and the Armory Show. Currently, Yolaçan lives and works in New York.
Solo Exhibitions:
2006, Perishables, Rivington Arms, New York
2007, Perishables, Yapi Kredi Kazim Taskent Art Gallery, Istanbul
Group Exhibitions:
1999, Xhibit, The London Institute Gallery, London
1999, The Cloth Show, Islington Business Design Center, London
2004, Art+Commerce 2004 Festival of Emerging Photographers, New York
2005, Entropy Interrupted, Two Trees Gallery Building, New York
2005, Surface Tension, Gallery 500, Portland
2005, Art-Robe: Women Artists at the Nexus of Fashion and Art, UNESCO, Paris
2006, Wild Girls, Exit Art, New York
2006, Strangers with Angelic Faces, Akbank Cultural Center, Istanbul
2006, Strangers with Angelic Faces, SPACE Triangle Gallery, London
2006, Good Bye To All That, Rivington Arms, New York
Reference: pinaryolacan.blogspot.com, saatchi-gallery.co.uk, Unleashed Contemporary Art from Turkey, (ed. Hossein Amirsadeghi, London: TransGlobe Publishing, 2010), p. 316-317.
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