Draft:Çınar Eslek

Çınar Eslek is a visual artist living in Turkey. In her works, examines the relationship between body and space and human nature. She works in different fields such as painting, installation, photography and video.

Career
Who lives and produces in Istanbul, deals with the possibilities of the body as a complex entity to live, think, and position itself through various media such as painting, photography, video, installation, and fabric. The artist, who won the Borders Orbits Award by Siemens Sanat in 2006, Akbank Contemporary Artists Prize in 2008, and the Istanbul Rotary Art Award in 2011, participated in the “Cité des Arts” artist-in-residence program in Paris in 2016. Over the years, Eslek had solo and group exhibitions in many institutions including Depo istanbul, Pi Artworks, Pg Art, Kasa Gallery, Bilsart, Mixer, Martch Art Gallery, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul Research Institute, and Istanbul Museum of Modern Arts. She participated in Turkey’s leading art events such as Istanbul Biennial, Çanakkale Biennial, and Mardin International Biennial. While Eslek brings together artists, directors, and writers within the scope of the “Ak-sayanlar” project she prepared for Art Unlimited magazine, she continues her “XXY” article project, which focuses on stories about the body, with Yekhan Pınarlıgil, together with whom she published the art book Karabasan in 2022. A graduate of Mimar Sinan University Painting Department, she also holds an MFA degree in Painting from Marmara University.

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