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Hatice Guleryuz is a contemporary artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

currently residing in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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. Her practice spans a broad range of media including video

Video

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, photography

Photography

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, art books

Artbook

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and drawing

Drawing

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Life and work

Guleryuz has a Master of Arts degree from Plymouth University in England, studied as Researcher at the Fine Arts Jan van Eyck Academie

Jan Van Eyck Academie

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as well as at the Post Graduate Program, Willem de Kooning Academie in The Netherlands; she earned her Bachelor's Degree at the fine art faculty at Izmir

Izmir

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Dokuz Eylül University

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in Turkey

Turkey

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.

Her work has been presented in museums, galleries, art exhibitions and film festivals throughout the world, such as:

MFSK - Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark (2010); The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

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, Germany (2010); Zentrum Paul Klee

Zentrum Paul Klee

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, Bern, Switzerland (2009); INSA Art Space, Seoul, Korea (2008); The Local at Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland (2008); Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco, USA (2007); Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt (2007); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2006); Freud Museum, London, England (2006); 9" International Istanbul Biennial

Istanbul Biennial

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, Istanbul, Turkey (2005); Cultural Centre, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2005); Transmediale .05, Berlin, Germany (2005); Els Hanappe Underground, Athens, Greece (2005).

Guleryuz's current focus includes human supremacy's impact on society; she declares: "Unless mankind transcends speciesism

Speciesism

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, and in so doing, takes the final step toward a truly civilized society, it will continue to damage itself and it will never overcome its self-made misery."

Works

The Great Fallacies of a Humanocentric Mind (2010) - Video Installation.
Death (2009) - Installation.
The Bus in LA LA Land (2008) - Video, filmed in Hollywood.
Strange Intimacies (2005) - A soft-cover "book," considered to be a piece of art rather than a book; 220 page with 60 photos, including an 18-minute video of the same title.
Four Images (2004) - 8 mm film transformed to video, it was filmed in Berlin, Rotterdam and istanbul.
Round up the Usual Suspect (2002) - 8 mm film transformed to video, mix with digital.
Intensive Care ( 2001) - 8 mm film transformed to video.
The first ones (2000) - 8 mm film transformed to video.

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