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
Selected Solo Exhibitions +
| 2021‑22 | The Skin, Body and I, Retrospective, Salt Beyoğlu, İstanbul [solo] |
| 2020 | Angels and Clowns, PiArtworks, İstanbul [solo] |
| 2018 | In via incognita, PiArtworks, London [solo] |
| 2017 | ONLAR/THEY, Fabrica, Brighton, UK [solo] |
| 2015 | ONLAR/THEY, Salt Galata, İstanbul [solo] |
| 2013 | What is a Turk?, The Agency, London [solo] |
| 2012 | Gallery Zilberman, İstanbul [solo] |
| 2011 | Extracted Objects, CDA Projects, Gallery Zilberman, İstanbul [solo] |
| 2009 | İPEK DUBEN: A selection 1994–2009, Aksanat, İstanbul [solo] |
| 2007 | Crossing, ART 101 Gallery, New York [solo] |
| 2001 | LoveYouForever, Stephen Gang Gallery, New York [solo] |
| 2001 | LoveBook, The Catherine G. Murphy Galleries, St. Paul, Minnesota [solo] |
| 1991 | İzler/Traces, Maçka Gallery, Istanbul [solo] |
| 1989 | Faces, Gallery Nev, Ankara [solo] |
| 1988 | Faces, Maçka Gallery, Istanbul [solo] |
| 1982 | Şerife (Sherife), The State Fine Arts Gallery, İstanbul [solo] |
Selected Group Shows +
| 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 |
| 2018 | (In) SOCIAL WORKS, Frieze London |
| 2018 | Mardin Biennial, Turkey |
| 2017 | ONLAR/THEY, Brighton Festival, UK |
| 2014 | Poetry and Exile: contemporary art from the Middle East, The British Museum |
| 2014 | 3rd EIAB – European International Book Art Biennale, Moscow |
| 2013 | 13th İstanbul Biennial |
| 2013 | Fifith International Artists’ Book Exhibition, King St. Stephen Museum, Hungary |
| 2012 | Aftermath, Akbank Sanat, İstanbul |
| 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 |
| 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 | Re:Duchamp Travelling Exhibition, İstanbul |
| 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 |
| 1982 | The Figure and the Portrait in Turkish Painting, Gallery Baraz, İstanbul |
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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