Baris Gokturk is an artist and educator raised in Turkey and Puerto Rico. He has got an MFA in Sculpture from Columbia University in addition to an MFA in painting from Hunter College. He is currently an Associate Professor at Rhode island School of Design. He has previously taught at MassArt, The New School, Columbia University and Hunter College.
Gokturk’s work explores themes of regeneration through fragmented figures and abstract spaces that represent spiritual unrest and relentless search for new possibilities.
Gokturk has been ApexArt fellow in Seoul, NXTHVN fellow in New Haven, artist-in-residence at ISCP, LMCC, Fountainhead and YADDO, as well as a participant in Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and SOMA Mexico among others.
Gokturk has shown his work internationally in US, Germany, Spain, France, Korea, Turkey and Puerto Rico. Recent museum exhibitions include The New Museum, Jewish Museum and Hudson River Museum in New York, Pera Museum in Istanbul and Frost Museum in Miami. He created public works for Columbia University’s Butler Library and the Public Art Fund in New York.
Gokturk is a founding member of JUNTE, a land, art and culture project in Puerto Rico incubated by the New Museum in New York.