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Fatma Bucak
Born1984
Turkey
EducationRoyal College of Art,[1] Accademia Albertina
Known forPhotography, Performance Art, Video Installations

Fatma Bucak (born 1984) is an artist and photographer who lives and works in London and Istanbul.[2]

Biography

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She was born in Iskenderun, Turkey, to a Kurdish family.[3] She works in a variety of media, including photography, performance, sound, and video installation, and focuses on themes of political identity, historical memory, and gender.[4][5][6] In 2019, she was named one of the Royal Photographic Society's ‘Hundred Heroines’, recognizing the achievements of women in photography.[7]

Bucak has exhibited at Venice Biennale, the Jewish Museum New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto.[8][9][10] Her work is held in the permanent collections of Fondazione Mario Merz, Arter, MAMbo, the Civic Gallery of Modena, and the Unicredit Art Collection.[11][8][12][13] In 2024, she was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome.[14] 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.[15][16] Bucak directed the 2011 documentary film Almost Married, which premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam.[17]

Solo exhibitions

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Group Exhibitions and Biennials

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Awards

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Bucak won the illy Present Future Award at Artissima 2013,[34] and the Tosseti Value Prize for Photography in 2021.[35][36]

Books

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  • So as to Find the Strength to See (published by Hopeful Monster, Turin, April 2018)[37] ISBN 978-88-7757-270-7
  • I Must Say a Word about Fear (published by Castello di Rivoli, 2017)[38]

References

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  1. ^ "Fatma Bucak". Royal College of Art. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  2. ^ "Fatma Bucak | Contributors | Frieze". www.frieze.com. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  3. ^ Siddons, Edward (2018-03-21). "Fatma Bucak's best photograph". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  4. ^ McQuaid, Cate (2017-01-19). "Taking her camera to where frontiers meet". Boston Globe. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  5. ^ "Fatma Bucak". Loop Barcelona. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  6. ^ Fassi, Luigi. "Artissima 2022 in Turin". Lampoon Magazine. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  7. ^ "Stories No Longer Untold". Hundred Heroines. 7 February 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  8. ^ a b "Fatma Bucak". Artnet. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  9. ^ a b "Sights and Sounds: Turkey". The Jewish Museum. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  10. ^ Krunak-Hajagos, Emese (2021-03-19). "Acts of Erasure". Dart Magazine. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  11. ^ "Fatma Bucak". Arter. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  12. ^ "Italian Council – Edizione 9". Creativita Contemporanea (in Italian). Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  13. ^ "Collezione Internazionale". Fondazione Fotografia Moderna (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-03-11.
  14. ^ Rome, American Academy in (2024-02-28). "Fatma Bucak". aarome.org. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  15. ^ a b "Fatma Bucak". columbia.edu. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  16. ^ "Fatma Bucak". iscp-nyc.org. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  17. ^ "Almost Married". idfa.nl/en. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  18. ^ Chen, Jess (2022-10-01). "Fatma Bucak". Artforum. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  19. ^ Giallombardo, Federica Maria (2022-12-15). "Se la musica incontra la storia. Fatma Bucak in mostra a Torino". Artribune (in Italian). Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  20. ^ "Fatma Bucak, Krista Belle Stewart: Acts of Erasure". Moca.ca. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  21. ^ Epps, Philomena (2018-03-26). "Fatma Bucak: Finding the Strength to See". ELEPHANT. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  22. ^ "Fatma Bucak. So As to Find the Strength to See". Arte.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-03-11.
  23. ^ Macgilp, Ali (17 November 2017). "Pascal Hachem at The Mosaic Rooms and Fatma Bucak at Pi Artworks". Contemporary Art Society. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
  24. ^ "Fatma Bucak". Z33. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  25. ^ "Over a line, darkly". Artpace San Antonio. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  26. ^ Kaplangi, Mine. "Istanbul: Exhibitions at Arter". Artfridge.de. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
  27. ^ "Becoming Flower". MAMAC. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  28. ^ Hanson, Matt (2020-03-23). "Art of distancing: Istanbul galleries at Art Basel online". Daily Sabah. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  29. ^ Abrams, Amah-Rose (2017-09-13). "Human rights at the heart of Gothenburg biennial". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  30. ^ "Staging the Screen: Rä di Martino and Fatma Bucak". The Ryder Projects. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  31. ^ "Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2013". ICA. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  32. ^ "Fatma Bucak: Sticks and Stones". Meer. 27 October 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  33. ^ "And Men Turned Their Faces from There". Brown.edu. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  34. ^ "Caroline Achaintre and Fatma Bucak, Illy Present Future 2013 Prize". moussemagazine.it. 10 November 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  35. ^ "Artissima Prizes". Artissima.art. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  36. ^ Infantino, Giacomo (2022-10-26). "Fatma Bucak, la fotografia che dà forma al silenzio". Il Giornale Dell'Arte (in Italian). Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  37. ^ "Fatma Bucak: So as to find the strength to see". Hopeful Monster. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  38. ^ "I Must Say a Word about Fear: Fatma Bucak". Art Institute Chicago. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
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