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Ata Berkol — ( Turkish, b.1996 )
I am an artist with a painting, mark making and material studies practice.
My practice aims to contest the transformation of opinions, identity and memory in and out of the confines of domestic spaces. My works are characterized by the focus on recognition. By employing domestic objects I identify, or remember, a spectrum of urban middle class mentality from warm to cold.
In the form of civic intervention, I make work documenting contact with communal and private urban cultural spaces.
The air of change from a mosque fountain to ornamental carpets or dinner tables.
Calm spaces transformed by intrusive tensions so subtly lying underneath that they may escape those who do not take the time to explore how and why they may be haunting long after you’ve been subjected to them.
I currently live and work in Chicago.
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Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA, 2018
Pratt Institute, NY, Certificate, 2014
London School of Arts, Certificate, 2013
Group Exhibition History
Buyukdere35, “Baazart Project”(2020) — Istanbul, Turkey
The Metro Chicago, “STELLAR Expo” (2019) — Chicago, IL
SITE Galleries, “LOOPED” (2019) — Chicago, IL
Sullivan Galleries, “Graduating BFA Reception” (2019) — Chicago, IL
Congruent Space (2019) — Chicago, IL
Doku Galleries (2019) — Istanbul, Turkey
Digital Art Demo Space, “BITxBIT” (2018) — Chicago, IL
“ExFest”, Flaxman Screening Room (2018) — Chicago, IL
LeRoy Nieman Center, “SAIC ArtBash” (2016) — Chicago, IL
MEF IB Campus, “Lobotomy: Graduating Reception” (2014) — Istanbul, Turkey
Recognition
Rising Talent Award. Fiverr. 2019
Presidential Merit Grant. Art Institute of Chicago. 2015
Publications
“America Will Be Great” Textbook. May 2017. Cover.