Baris Gokturk
Baris Gokturk, Artist Portrait in the Studio.
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Nathan West.
“Things that are visible, once made concrete by art through sensorial experience, become out in the open and that is the first step to any kind of regeneration.”
BARIS GOKTURK
Baris Gokturk was born in Ankara, Turkey. A recent graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program (2020), Gokturk has been an ApexArt fellow in Seoul, South Korea, the artist-in-residence in multiple institutions In New York and abroad including ISCP, LMCC,YADDO, and SOMA Mexico,
as well a participant at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
His debut solo exhibition in New York could be seen at Helena Anrather Gallery in November 2020. Recent museum exhibitions include Pera Museum in Istanbul, Turkey and SECCA in
Winston-Salem, NC.
He recently completed a mural for Columbia University’s Butler Library and a commission by the Public Art Fund as part of Art on the Grid. He finished his residency at LMCC Governors Island in 2020 and undertook a large-scale commission at The Boiler @ Elm Foundation with the support of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and SAHA Istanbul in 2021.
Gokturk is currently an artist-in-residence at ISCP and working on upcoming projects in New York, Venice, and Eskisehir, Turkey. He also teaches at Parsons School of Design, New York.
The artist lives and works in Brooklyn.
www.barisgokturk.com
Instagram: @baris_gokturk_00
Baris Gokturk, All Saints, exhibition view at The Boiler @ ELM Foundation, 2021.
Image transfer, polymer, ink, acrylic, netting, 487.86 × 731.52 cm (16 × 24 ft).
Courtesy of the artist and The Boiler @ Elm Foundation.
Public Art Fund Commission, New York, 2020.
Courtesy of the artist and Public Art Fund Commission.
Baris Gokturk, The Mine, 2021.
Courtesy of the artist.
Public Secret, installation shot.
Solo exhibition at Helena Anrather Gallery, New York, 2020.
Courtesy of the artist and Helena Anrather Gallery.
Public Secret, installation shot.
Solo exhibition at Helena Anrather Gallery, New York, 2020.
Courtesy of the artist and Helena Anrather Gallery.
Baris Gokturk, Glory of Commerce, installation shot, Columbia University Thesis Show,
Wallach Gallery, New York, 2021.
Courtesy of the artist and Wallach Gallery.
“For me, the speculative surface of painting has become a way of processing the speculative space of protest, the former a reflection for evaluating the many directions of the latter’s potential.”
“I am also interested in finding a formal process and a visual outcome in my work that reflects modes of seeing on a materially tangible surface.”
Baris Gokturk, The Carousel, 2019.
Mixed media and image transfer on paper, 152.4 × 101.6 cm (60 × 40 in).
Courtesy of the artist and Anaïs Lellouche.