"Slow Disco" by Bahar Yürükoğlu
Bahar Yürükoğlu
Slow Disco, 2020
Archival pigment print on archival paper
12 x 8 in.
Edition of 3
$600.00 (Framed)
WPA Note:
Bahar Yürükoğlu is a DC-based artist that has participated in many of WPA’s benefit art sales.
About the Artist:
Bahar Yürükoğlu earned her MFA in Interrelated Media from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston (2011) and her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York (2003). Selected solo shows include: Organ Panic, artSümer, Istanbul, 2019; Maybe I’d like to be like you, artSümer, Istanbul, 2017; Flow Through, ARTER, Istanbul, 2016; Self-Titled, Nesrin Esirtgen Collection, Istanbul, 2014; and Melting North, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, 2013. Selected group exhibitions include Vantage Point 7, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2019; Coalescence, Angra do Heroísmo Museum, Terceira, 2018; Glasgow International, 2018; and the 2013 Biennial, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA. Among the residencies Yürükoğlu participated are: the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Saratoga, WY, 2013; the Arctic Circle, Svalbard, the Arctic Circle, 2015; Kultivera, Tranås, Sweden, 2016; and Re_Act Contemporary, Azores, Portugal, 2018. Her work has been featured in such publications as Art Papers, Art Review, Art Review Asia, Art Unlimited, Hürriyet, as well as on online platforms including AnOthermag.com, and Hyperallergic. She is a recipient of a 2018 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Bahar lives and works between DC and Istanbul.