EDUCATION
2020 Columbia University, MFA in Sculpture
2016 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2010 Hunter College, MFA in Painting
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES and AWARDS
2023 The New Museum, New Inc. Program, Member in Social Architecture Track as Junte, New York
2023 Fountainhead Residency, Miami
2023 Dieu Donne Workspace Residency, New York
2023 Siena Art Institute Studio/Casa Residency, Siena, Italy
2021 ISCP International Residency, New York
2021 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Center Emergency Grant, New York
2021 SAHA Production Grant, Istanbul
2021 Catherine Doctorow Prize, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (nominated))
2019 LMCC Arts Center Residency, New York
2019 YADDO Residency, Saratoga Springs, New York
2019 Columbia University Dean’s Travel Grant (x2), New York
2018 SOMA Summer, Mexico City, Mexico
2018 The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York
2017 NARS Foundation, New York
2013 Apex Art Outbound Residency, New York
2013 Seoul Art Space-GEUMCHEON, Seoul, Korea
2010 Tony Smith Award, Hunter College, New York
2008 Graf Travel Grant, Hunter College, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Seeker & The Imposter, Subtitled, New York
2023 Scanner/Tarayan, Galeri Bosfor, Istanbul
2023 Monument IV, Equity Gallery, New York
2021 All Saints, The Boiler @ ELM Foundation, New York
2020 Public Secret, Helena Anrather Gallery, New York
2019 The Pavilion, Mural, Columbia University Butler Library, New York
2018 S. Y Su Apocalipsis, with Marcos Castro, Spring Break Art Show, New York
2016 La Catedral, Joaquin Parrilla Gallery, Puerto Rico
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Prototype 1.0, Springs Projects, New York
2024 Enigmavista, Galeri Bosfor, Istanbul
2023 Artists Against The Bomb, The Judd Foundation, New York
2023 Draw: Point to Point, The Frost Art Museum, Miami
2022 What is Contemporary Drawing and What Can It All Be, Galerija Umjetnina, Split, Croatia
2022 Figuration Through Abstraction, Andrew Reed Gallery, Miami
2022 A Tournament of Lies, Wassaic Project, New York
2022 New Visions, Andrew Reed Gallery, Miami
2022 Devociones, Joaquin Parrilla Gallery, Puerto Rico
2021 In Response, The Jewish Museum, New York
2021 Munchen Monopoly, Galerie Christine Mayer & PAD, Munich, Germany
2021 Grand Guignol, Paradice Palase, New York
2020 Art on the Grid, New York City Public Art Fund Commission
2020 NADA Miami, Helena Anrather Gallery
2020 DRAWN: Concept and Craft, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem
2020 End Result, Deceso Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2020 Alone Together, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
2020 Group Text, Napoleon, Philadelphia
2019 Distance, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Projects, New York
2019 Aesthetically Functional Only, 1675 Broadway, New York
2018 Mektep Meydan Galatasaray, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2017 Skowhegan Performs, Junte, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
2017 Junte, Mecanismos, MECA Art Fair, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2016 Road, Unexpected Territories-26th Istanbul International Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey
2016 Antagonistic Monument, Amado Art Space, Seoul, South Korea
2016 Turing’s Apple, curated by Tony Oursler, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
2015 You Don’t Bring Me Flowers, 68projects, Berlin, Germany
2015 Borderlands, Coop Gallery, Nashville
2014 Iceberg’s Tongue, National YoungArts Foundation, Miami
2014 Person, Place or Thing, 68projects, Berlin, Germany
2014 Campfire, curated by Shawn Powell, Academic, New York
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022- RISD, Critic, Graduate Printmaking
2022- Columbia University, Adjunct Assistant Professor
2021- Parsons School of Design, Part-Time Faculty
2013-2021 Pace University, Adjunct Assistant Professor
20011-2019 Hunter College, Adjunct Assistant Professor
2008- Johns Hopkins University, Neurology Department, New York Education Program, Art Program Director
VISITING ARTIST
2023 Queens College, CUNY, MFA Program
2022 Pratt Institute, Fine Arts, Senior Professional Practices
2021 Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Senior Painting
2021 Hunter College, Junior-Senior Painting
2017 Purchase College-SUNY, Senior Thesis
2012 Parsons School for Design, New School University, Senior Thesis, BFA in Fine Arts
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2014 In/On, Mike Cloud, Maureen StVincent, Karla Wozniak, Heliopolis, New York,
2014 Big Window Little Field, Samita Sinha, K J Holmes, David Kagan, Dhira Rauch, Christina Freeman, Zack Fabri, Shaun Leonardo, Heliopolis, New York
2013 Witness My Hand, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Heliopolis, New York
2013 Ticklish Object, Judith Linhares, Zoe Sheehan Saldana, Jeff Grant, Heliopolis, New York
2012 Circled the Man, Daniel Bozhkov, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Erkan Özgen and Sener Özmen, Ji Hye Yeom, Susana Gaudêncio, Heliopolis, New York
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Art Unlimited, Cansizoglu, Ibrahim, “Isigin Kaynagi”, October
2021 Art Spiel, Yaniv, Etty, “Danse Macabre in Public Spaces”, November
2020 Brooklyn Rail, Rivlin, Bat-ami, “Art Seen”, November
2020 Art Forum, Public Secret, MUST SEE, November
2019 Cornucopia Magazine, “The Artist’s Eye, The Historian’s Gaze”, October
2018 BOMB Magazine, Russ, Sabine, “Baris Gokturk and Marcos Castro”, September
2018 Pera Museum, Bafra, Celenk, “Mektep, Meydan, Galatasaray”, September
2017 The Air Sheets, Sorry Archives, Thill, Vanessa and Mirocha, Claire, November
2015 Seoul Museum of Art, Shin, Yanghee, Catalogue Essay, December
2015 Fresh Paint Magazine, February
2014 Art Fag City, Johnson, Patty, August