BIO
Askin Ercan is a video maker and digital visual artist who lives and works in Turkey. She graduated with Ph.D. at the Gazi University, Department of Fine Arts. Her recent works focus on urban life, humanity, and memory through portraying humans who are lost and sometimes visible in urban life. She has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from video and installation to sound and collage.
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Critical Threshold, TOSCA Art, Ankara, Turkey
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2020 #TBT, VideoBox, ODArt, Solo Video Show, Eskisehir, Turkey
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2018 The Girl on the Wire, TAC Gallery, Tulsa Oklahoma USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Close Contact, Fab Galery, Tiran, Albanian
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2021 Corona Monument, Eldem Art Space, Fırın, Eskisehir
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2021 CICA Experimental Film and Video Festival, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
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2021 ‘WATER’, International Online Group Exhibition, Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta
2021 Corona! Shutdown!, Corona Film Collection, online
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2020 'AbNORMAL' (New Normal, Covid-19) ODArt, Eskisehir, Turkey
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2020 'Together', Kova Art Space, Ankara, Turkey
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2020 'The Heirs' Hinterland Galerie, Wien, Austria
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2019 'Plural' , Group Exhibition, ODArt, Eskisehir, Turkey
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2019 Asos Congress 6. International Symposium on Fine Arts, Group Exhibition. Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Alanya, Turkey
2018 "TAC@AHHA" 30th Tulsa artist Coalition Juried exhibition, Tulsa OK USA
2018 "X. International Caravanserai Meeting Contemporary Art Exhibition. Malatya, Turkey
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2018 “Pre, Post, Errors, Preposterous: A radio program on victimizing language.”
Live broadcast with Belit Sag and Askin Ercan, Freirad Radio Innsbruck. 25.05.2018.
Innsbruck, Austria.
2018 “A part that is missing never breaks", Kunstpavillion and Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria.
2018 “5X5” TAC Gallery, Tulsa Oklahoma USA
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2017 Crossing Borders, Living Art Tulsa, Oklahoma USA
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2016 Close up, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio USA (Solo exhibition)
2016 The annual collage of Medicine Art Show, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio USA
2015 Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Young Contemporary Artist Project, Cermodern, Ankara, Turkey
2015 ODTU (Middle East Technical University) Art Festival 16, KKM Art Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
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2014 Visual Arts Education Assocation, Erzincan Universty Art Gallery, Erzincan,Turkey
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2012 St Henry Association Artist Meeting, Toulouse, France
2012 3. International Canakkale Biennial, Canakale, Turkey
2012 Festival of Contemporary Art 2012, Fabrikart Group Nevsehir, Turkey
2012 Young, Fresh, Different 3, CDA projects, Istanbul, Turkey
2012 Young artists are meeting in Kervansaray, Battalgazi, Malatya, Turkey
2011 International Izmir Biennial, Izmir, Turkey
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2011 Once upon a time...a home exhibition, Diyarbakir, Turkey
2010 Outdoor Art Exhibition Yesilyurt Cherry Festival, Malatya, Turkey
2010 Harmony in Diversity Exhibition of Anatolian Enlightenment of the Art, Istanbul, Turkey
2009 Uchisar Artist Meeting, Klaxon Culture Center, Istanbul, Turkey
2008 Language Situations, Historical Hasan Pasha Public House, Diyarbakır, Turkey
2007 You are disabled or been disabled, Art Days of Diyarbakır Municipality, Diyarbakır Turkey
2007 Uchisar Artist Meeting, French Culture Center, Istanbul, Turkey
2004 Graduation Exhibition of Dicle University, Diyarbakır, Turkey
2000 Graduation Exhibition of Anatolian Fine Arts High School, Diyarbakır Turkey
Workshops
1998 DOORS Anatolian Fine Arts High School, Diyarbakır, Turkey
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2007 Here as the center of the world, Diyarbakır Art Center,Turkey
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2007 Here as the center of the world Villa de Bank, Enschede, Holland
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2007 Here as the center of the world Pluto, Enschede, Holland
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2007 Uchisar Artist Meeting, Nevsehir,Turkey
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2009 Payra I’Hers’Artist Meeting, Toulouse, France
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2010 Free fall Apartment project, Istanbul, Turkey
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Awards
"TAC@AHHA" 30th Tulsa artist coalition juried exhibition, Jurior's choice award
Tulsa, OK USA
2018
The Annual College of Medicine Art Show, The Ohio State University, Honorable Mention
Columbus, USA
2016
Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Young Contemporary Artist Competition Winner.
2015
Young, Fresh, Different 3, CDA projects (exhibiting)
2012
2. Söbitay ÖZER Art Competition (ÇAGSAV) (exhibiting)
2010
Inönü University 4. National Art Competition (exhibiting)
2009
Symposium & Research
Postmodernizm and video in deconstruction parenthesis, Asos Congress 6. International Symposium on Fine Arts,
Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Alanya, 2019
As a practice of art, construction of video in the context of reconstruction,
Proficiency in Art, Phd Thesis
Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey, 2019
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The effects of smart board on visual art education of children,
National Education Congress, Nigde University, Turkey, 2014
Observation of behavior of children with Down syndrome in visual art education.
International Art Symposium, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014
The reviews of the teacher of children with disability about effects of visual arts education on children with down syndrome
2. National Visual Arts Education Symposium, Çanakkale, Turkey, 2010
The Influences Of The Education Of The Visual Arts Over The Down Syndrome Children (Diyarbakir Sample)
Master Degree Thesis, Malatya, 2009
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