İpek Duben does artist's books and installations, sculpture, painting and video art. Her works focus on notions of identity, gender, migration and cultural prejudices.



Born in İstanbul 1941

Mimar Sinan University (PhD) 1984
New York Studio School For Painting Drawing and Sculpture (1972-76)
University of Chicago (MA) 1965
University of Chicago (ABD all except dissertation) 1971
Agnes Scott College (BA) 1963
American College For Girls Arnavutköy 1961

Lives in İstanbul
1991-2001 lived and worked in New York

Monograph +


İpek Duben: Ten, Beden, Ben
Türkçe, 272 sayfa ©2024 Salt/Garanti Kültür A.Ş. (İstanbul)
ISBN: 978-605-69760-9-4
Editör: Vasıf Kortun
Yayın Koordinatörü: Sezin Romi
Metinler: Işın Önol, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Marianne Hirsch
Söyleşi: İpek Duben, Vasıf Kortun
İngilizce’den Türkçe’ye Çeviri: Çağla Özbek
Düzelti: Özlem Altunok
Tasarım: Esen Karol
Baskı: Ofset Yapımevi

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Selected Exhibitions +

2021‑22 The Skin, Body and I, Retrospective, Salt Beyoğlu, İstanbul [solo]
2022‑23 Artists Making Books Poetry to Politics, The British Museum
2022‑23 Multi Perspective: In a Multiple Perspective, Yarat Art Center, Baku
2022‑23 Guilty, Guilty, Guilty!: Towards a Feminist Criminology, Kunstraum Kreuzeberg, Berlin
2022 Nature and State, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
2020 Angels and Clowns, PiArtworks, İstanbul [solo]
2018 In via incognita, PiArtworks, London [solo]
2018 (In) SOCIAL WORKS, Frieze London
2018 Mardin Biennial, Turkey
2017 ONLAR/THEY, Fabrica, Brighton, UK [solo]
2017 ONLAR/THEY, Brighton Festival, UK
2015 ONLAR/THEY, Salt Galata, İstanbul [solo]
2014 Poetry and Exile: contemporary art from the Middle East, The British Museum
2014 3rd EIAB – European International Book Art Biennale, Moscow
2013 What is a Turk?, The Agency, London [solo]
2013 13th İstanbul Biennial
2013 Fifith International Artists’ Book Exhibition, King St. Stephen Museum, Hungary
2012 Aftermath, Akbank Sanat, İstanbul
2012 Gallery Zilberman, İstanbul [solo]
2011 Extracted Objects, CDA Projects, Gallery Zilberman, İstanbul [solo]
2011 Dream and Reality, İstanbul Modern
2011 The (UN)Framed Photograph, Center for Book Arts, New York
2011 Selection from Turkish Contemporary Art, Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts, Baku
2010 A Dream... But Not Yours, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
2010 The Bibliotheca Alexandrina Fourth International Biennale for the Artist’s Book
2010 Who’s Who?, 6th Moscow International Artist’s Book Fair
2009 New Works New Horizons, İstanbul Modern
2009 Istanbul Next Wave: Under my feet I want the world, not heaven, Akademie der Künst, Berlin
2009 Threads: Interweaving Textu[r]al Meanings, Center for Book Arts, New York
2009 İPEK DUBEN: A selection 1994–2009, Aksanat, İstanbul [solo]
2007 Crossing, ART 101 Gallery, New York [solo]
2007 Modern and Beyond: 1950–2000, Santralistanbul, İstanbul
2006 Substance and Light: Ten Sculptors Use Cameras, Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, Utica, NY
2006 Fourth International Artist’s Book Exhibition, King St. Stephen Museum, Hungary
2006 Contemporary Art from Turkey and Korea, Incheon Center For Contemporary Art, Korea
2006 The First International Sinop Biennial, Turkey
2005 Nations and Origins, Gallery Nord, Berlin
2004 Bibliotheca Alexandrina’s First International Biennial for Hand Printed Artists’ Books, Egypt
2004 Call Me Istanbul, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2004 The Art Incubator Inaugural Art Exhibition, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
2003 Time Lines Reading the City of Signs: Istanbul: revealed or mystified?, The Architecture Centre, Bristol; İstanbul Bilgi University; University of Nottingham, UK; London College of Communication
2001 The Fifth Sharjah International Arts Biennial, U.A.E.
2001 LoveYouForever, Stephen Gang Gallery, New York [solo]
2001 Re:Duchamp Travelling Exhibition, İstanbul
2001 LoveBook, The Catherine G. Murphy Galleries, St. Paul, Minnesota [solo]
2001 Fifth Annual Loft Pioneer, Puffinroom Gallery, New York
2001 Justice and Politics, Modena, Italy
2000 Istanbul Round Trip III, Borusan Art Gallery, İstanbul
1999 Private Mythologies, Westbeth Gallery, New York
1998 Karamustafa Import-Export, Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna
1997 Karamustafa Import-Export, Echoraum, Vienna
1996 Figuring in the Figure, Montclair State University Art Galleries, New Jersey
1996 Maps-Charts-Routes, Irvine Fine Arts Center, California
1996 Content and Context, The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota
1995–97 OpPositions, Museum voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam
1995 Ephesus – The Imagination of History, Ephesus, Turkey
1994 Hunter College Invitational, Hunter College Galleries, New York
1993 Women Artists from the Beginning of the Republic to the Present, İstanbul Museum of Archaeology
1992 Mesnevi-i Şerif and Garipname, Sixty-six Squares, TÜYAP, İstanbul
1992 New York–Istanbul, Atatürk Cultural Center, İstanbul
1991 Recollection/Memory I (Anı/Bellek 1), İstanbul Taksim Municipal Art Gallery
1991 İzler/Traces, Maçka Gallery, Istanbul [solo]
1989 Faces, Gallery Nev, Ankara [solo]
1988 Faces, Maçka Gallery, Istanbul [solo]
1982 The Figure and the Portrait in Turkish Painting, Gallery Baraz, İstanbul
1982 Şerife (Sherife), The State Fine Arts Gallery, İstanbul [solo]

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