Civan Özkanoğlu
Civan Özkanoğlu
Civan Özkanoğlu (b. 1983, Adana) is an interdisciplinary artist who traces the everyday. He is drawn to seemingly mundane stories and daily absurdities, examining how they intersect in public spaces, mass media, the art world, politics, and collective memory. His practice has its origins in photography and he has since expanded into other visual, sculptural and performative interventions that tend to the conceptual tensions within artistic production and the exhibitionary forms it enables. His work often addresses memory and state violence.
He has exhibited works at SALT, Istanbul; National Academy Museum, New York; Brand Library & Art Center, Los Angeles and Istanbul Modern, among others. He has done numerous artist-in-residence programs including Cité des Art, Paris and most recently at ISCP, New York. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Civan Özkanoğlu (b. 1983, Adana) is an interdisciplinary artist who traces the everyday. He is drawn to seemingly mundane stories and daily absurdities, examining how they intersect in public spaces, mass media, the art world, politics, and collective memory. His practice has its origins in photography and he has since expanded into other visual, sculptural and performative interventions that tend to the conceptual tensions within artistic production and the exhibitionary forms it enables. His work often addresses memory and state violence.
He has exhibited works at SALT, Istanbul; National Academy Museum, New York; Brand Library & Art Center, Los Angeles and Istanbul Modern, among others. He has done numerous artist-in-residence programs including Cité des Art, Paris and most recently at ISCP, New York. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.