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. Her work explores intersections between the personal and the political examining the impact of urban life, memory, and daily life on the social and cultural dynamics.
Exhibitions
2020 'AbNORMAL' (New Normal, Covid-19) ODArt,Eskisehir, Turkey
2020 #TBT, VideoBox, ODArt, Solo Video Show, Eskisehir, Turkey
2020 'Together', Kova Art Space, Ankara, Turkey
2020 'The Heirs' Hinterland Galerie, Wien, Austria
2019 'Plural' , Group Exhibition, ODArt, Eskisehir, Turkey
2019 'Unter Demselben Himmel' 'Din Bin Ezmaneki de', Luisleu, Karlsruhe, Germany
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
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
2018 The Girl on the Wire, TAC Gallery, Tulsa Oklahoma USA (Solo exhibition)
2017 The settlement of time, 27. Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey
2017 Crossing Borders, Living Art Tulsa, Oklahoma USA
2016 The wind and voyage, Wild Fork, Tulsa Oklahoma USA (Solo exhibition)
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
2015 International Kurdish Artist Meeting, Amed Art Gallery, Diyarbakir, Turkey
2014 Visual Arts Education Assocation, Erzincan Universty Art Gallery, Erzincan,Turkey
2013 Bakur 2, Kuzey 2, North 2. Amed Art Gallery, Diyarbakir, Turkey
2012 Bakur, Kuzey, North. Amed Art Gallery, Diyarbakir, Turkey
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
2011 Atesin Dustugu Yer, Human Rights Foundation of Turkey DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey
2011 %100 Peace Ada Sanat Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
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
2007 Here as the center of the world, Diyarbakır Art Center,Turkey
2007 Here as the center of the world Villa de Bank, Enschede, Holland
2007 Here as the center of the world Pluto, Enschede, Holland
2007 Uchisar Artist Meeting, Nevsehir,Turkey
2009 Payra I’Hers’Artist Meeting, Toulouse, France
2010 Free fall Apartment project, Istanbul, Turkey
2018 "Talking Censorship", “Single Traces, Common Grounds”. Skype workshop with Belit Sag, Rezzan Gümgüm and Seçil Yaylalı. Turkey, Austria and Italy
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
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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