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Selin Balcı graduated from gradauted from the Department of Forestry at Istanbul University in 2002. She then went to the US and compeleted her BFA in Intermedia at West Virginia University in 2008 and MFA in Studio Arts at the University of Maryland in 2012. She the worked in plant pathology related research labs for more than five years. In 2010 her work was included in the Scope Art Fair Miami.
Balci was awarded with College Art Association (CAA) Professional-Development Fellowship in Visual Arts. She has also received many other honors, including So Hamiltonian Fellowship from Hamiltonian Gallery, SmackMellon′s Hot Picks Artist Award, SOFAlab Science/Art Project Collaboration Grant from George Mason University and Goldhaber Travel Grant from University of Maryland. Balcı has held solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions and biennials in the US and abroad. She has given courses including Web Design, Digital Photography, and Adobe Photoshop at the University of Maryland. Balcı currently continues her work in the US.
Selected solo and two person exhibitions:
2014, Bordered World, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2014, Microbial Growth, Sandbox Gallery, Washington College, Chestertown, MD
2014, Arena, Honfleur Gallery, Washington DC
2012, Interact and Transform, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC.
2011, Organic Plasticity, The District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DC
2011, Bound, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC
Fellowships, Grants and awards:
2014, Project Grant, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2013, Trawick Prize Finalist, Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards, Bethesda, MD
2012, SOFALab, Science Art Collaboration Grant, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2012, College Art Association (CAA), Professional Development Fellowship in the Visual Arts Award, NY
2012, Fellow Artist, Artist in Residence, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2012, Smack Mellon Hot Picks Artist, Brooklyn, NY
2011, Goldhaber Travel Grant, University of Maryland Graduate School, College Park, MD
2011, Artist Award, Artist in Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2010, So-Hamiltonian Fellowship, Hamiltonian Artists, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC
2010, Anne Truitt MFA Scholarship, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Reference: selinbalci.com, hamiltonianartists.org, microbialart.blogspot.com.tr, thestamp.umd.edu |
