Barış Göktürk

Barış Göktürk was born in Ankara, Turkey. A recent graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program (2020), Göktürk has been an ApexArt fellow in Seoul, South Korea, the artist-in-residence in multiple institutions In New York and abroad including ISCP, LMCC,YADDO, and SOMA Mexico, as well a participant at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.His debut solo exhibition in New York could be seen at Helena Anrather Gallery in November 2020. Recent museum exhibitions include Pera Museum in Istanbul, Turkey and SECCA in Winston-Salem, NC.
Gokturk is currently an artist-in-residence at ISCP and working on upcoming projects in New York, Venice, and Eskisehir, Turkey. He also teaches at Parsons School of Design, New York. The artist lives and works in Brooklyn.
In his works, Barış Göktürk is intereste in the way ideology-driven aesthetics are adopted, or reacted against, by individuals as self-defining spiritual symbols.
I reconstruct two-dimensional historical documents, photographs and archival imagery about events or individuals overlooked by the mainstream history in three-dimensional layers, hybrid fragments and installations that oscillate between drawing, painting and sculpture. I rebuild the photographic image as a physical surface first and then peel it off as a displaced piece of skin that I reapply to other found or sculpted objects in relation to a specific event.