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Turkish contemporary artist
Fatma Bucak
Born1984
Turkey
EducationRoyal College of Art, Accademia Albertina
Known forPhotography, Performance Art, Video, Installation, Sculpture, Printmaking

Fatma Bucak (born 1984) is an artist and photographer who lives and works in London and Istanbul.

Biography

She was born in Turkey, to a Kurdish family. She works in a variety of media, including photography, performance, sound, multimedia, and video installation, and focuses on themes of political identity, historical memory, and gender. In 2019, she was named one of the Royal Photographic Society's ‘Hundred Heroines’, recognizing the achievements of women in photography.

Bucak has exhibited at Venice Biennale, the Jewish Museum New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto. Her work is held in the permanent collections of Fondazione Mario Merz, Arter, MAMbo, the Civic Gallery of Modena, and the Unicredit Art Collection. In 2024, she was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Bucak has also been artist-in-resident at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, and at ISCP in Brooklyn, New York. Bucak directed the 2011 documentary film Almost Married, which premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam.

Solo exhibitions

Group Exhibitions and Biennials

Awards

Bucak won the illy Present Future Award at Artissima 2013, and the Tosseti Value Prize for Photography in 2021.. In 2024, she was awared the Novo Nordisk Foundation Artistic Research Grant.

Books

  • So as to Find the Strength to See (published by Hopeful Monster, Turin, April 2018) ISBN 978-88-7757-270-7
  • I Must Say a Word about Fear (published by Castello di Rivoli, 2017)

References

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