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Tuba Öztekin Köymen is an artist and designer who lives and works in the Dallas, Fort Worth Metroplex. She was born in Turkey and graduated in 1995 from the Department of Graphic Design at Bilkent University. In 1999, she was awarded an MFA in Photography and Digital imaging by the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Köymen’s art calls attention to human nature by offering candid scenes of everyday life through the media of photography and photo based installations. Working across the gamut of photographic processes, from alternative to digital, Köymen art centers on issues arising from place, culture and social interaction. Her perspective is humanistic and universalizing; she regards these issues to be common territory for all human beings.
Köymen has had solo exhibitions locally and internationally in museums and galleries including the Center of Documentary Studies at Duke University, Light Factory (North Carolina), Austin College (Sherman, Texas), and the Museum Center in Baku, Azerbaijan. She has organized exhibitions of photography and arts and assisted the many organizations including the Istanbul Biennial. She has participated in many workshops, collaborative projects, and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Köymen taught as a visiting professor at Austin College in Sherman, Texas in Spring 2014.
Selected exhibitions:
2017 Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, TX (solo)
2017, "Call and Response: Art as Resistance". Strange Fire Collective. Collaboration with the Center for Fine Art Photography, Colorado Photographic Arts Center and Month of Photography Denver. (group)
2017, "Abstract Mind", 2nd International Exhibition on Abstract Art, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi, Korea (group)
2017, “Steeped: The Art of Tea”, 108|Contemporary. Juried show in partnership with Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at The University of Tulsa, OK (group)
2016, Polivalents #9 – Montecargas, Hangar Artist Residency, Barcelona, Spain (group)
2016, "quiddity," Austin College, Sherman, TX (solo)
2016, "This Land is Your Land," Duchesne Academy Atrium Gallery: Participating space for FotoFest, and then travel to the Wright Gallery at Texas A&M University, Curated by Krista Steinke (group)
2014, Retrospective, WoCA, Fort Worth, TX (solo)
2008, Museum Center, Baku, Azerbaijan (solo)
2006, Austin College, Sherman, TX (solo)
2004, Fort Worth Community Art Center, Fort Worth, TX (solo)
2002, Duke University, Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, North Carolina 2001 The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina (solo) |
