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Eser Selen was born in Ankara in 1974. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Bilkent University in 1997. After completing a master’s degree at her alma mater in 1999, she went to New York City, and completed a master’s degree in Performance Studies at New York University in 2002. Selen then completed her Ph.D. in Performance Studies at NYU Tisch School of the Arts in New York.
Selen is a multidisciplinary artist, and works on performance art, installation, and video. She has exhibited, performed, and presented nationally and internationally with installations, performances, and seminars at galleries and museums including Contemporary Art Museum (Istanbul), Aksanat (Istanbul), Floor Dance Theater (New York), Ram Gallery (Rotterdam), Kasa Gallery (Istanbul), and Atelje 212 Theatre (Belgrade). Her works have been published in such journals as “Gender Place and Culture”, “Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory”, “International Journal of the Humanities”, and “Gündoğan Edebiyat.” The catalogue of her second solo exhibition at the Akbank Art Gallery (Istanbul) “Work-by-Work” was published in 2006. Currently, Selen serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Design at Kadir Has University, Istanbul.
Selected exhibitions:
“Found and Lost”, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul
“Yourh Art in Ankara III / UPSD”, Ankara
“Wash Me”, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
“No/W/Here”, Yıldız Technical University
“I had a Dream Last Night” MFA project, Bilkent University, Ankara
“Euroean-Mediterranean Youth Biennial”, Rome
“Internatinal Student Triennial”, Marmara University, Istanbul
“The Edge” Lovera-Vitali Foundation, Uriage, France
Reference: ramfoundation.nl, eserselen.cgpublisher.com, activity.khas.edu.tr, arsiv.ntvmsnbc.com
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