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o Artist: Baris Gokturk

o Title: Forest at Night Paintings

o Year: 2018

o Medium: Oil on canvas

o Dimensions: 9 x 12 inches

o Description: Baris Gokturk is a Turkish artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He is a recent graduate of Columbia University's MFA program in sculpture. Recent and upcoming museum projects and exhibitions include SECCA in Winston-Salem, The Jewish Museum in New York, The Frost Art Museum in Miami, and Pera Museum in Istanbul. He also completed public commissions by Columbia University's Butler Library and The Public Art Fund in New York . His solo exhibition Public Secret was on view at Helena Anrather Gallery, in New York, in the fall of 2021. Gokturk has shown his work in the United States and internationally in Germany, Spain, France, Korea, Turkey and Puerto Rico. His work has been featured in ArtForum, The BOMB Magazine and The Brooklyn Rail among others. Gokturk was an ApexArt fellow in Seoul, artist-in-residence at YADDO, and a participant in SOMA Mexico as well as Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In addition to his MFA from Columbia University in sculpture, he also holds an MFA in painting from Hunter College where he taught for seven years. He currently teaches at The New School and Columbia University. He also runs an art program for Johns Hopkins University's neurology department. From 2011-2015, he ran with a group of artists a gallery and project space called Heliopolis in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He is the co-founder of Junte, an arts and culture project in Puerto Rico. He has contributed articles to Istanbul based bilingual art magazine RHsanat and the monthly political Post-Express since 2005. Gokturk recently finished artist-in-residence programs at LMCC Governor's Island in New York, Fountainhead in Miami and at Siena Art Institute in Italy. He is currently working on upcoming projects in New York and Istanbul.

o Artist website or Instagram: www.barisgokturk.com