BIOGRAPHY
Senem Oezdogan (b. 1980) is a Brooklyn-based painter whose practice includes painting, drawing, and fiber art.
Her work focuses on the visual phenomenon of optical illusion through color, form, and contrast. Smooth gradients give a sense of volume to bold shapes and play with the juxtaposition of what the mind knows and the eye sees. Her use of spatial composition disrupts the foreground and background and constantly forces the viewer to re-orient their sense of perspective.
Combining concepts of structure and form with observations of content and emotion, her work turns shape into form, form into volume, and volume into emotion, creating an anthropomorphic and biomorphic system of relationships that refer to the human body and nature as well as architecture.
Senem Oezdogan received her M.A. from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and is a graduate of FIT in New York.
Senem's work is currently being represented by Uprise Art in New York and Kennedy Contemporary in Newport Beach, California. Sotheby's, Bank of America, and The Barings Art Collection all exhibit her artwork.
EXHIBITIONS
2022 I’ll Be There: An Exhibition about Love!, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Maryland
2021 Nothing to See Here, LaunchF18 Gallery, New York (solo)
2021 Actual Paper, Court Tree Gallery, Brooklyn
2021 Colored Pencil Redux, McKenzie Fine Art, New York
2021 Post Painterly Now, Sugarlift Gallery, New York
2020 The Night Paintings, Launch F18 Gallery, New York (solo)
2020 Structure and Space, Court Tree Gallery, Brooklyn
2020 Home/Work, Digital Exhibition, Uprise Art, New York
2020 Togetherness, Digital Exhibition, (togetherness.com)
2020 New Prints 2020/Winter, IPCNY, New York
2019 Gradient Works, Gotham West, New York (solo)
2019 Editions/Artists’ Books Fair (EAB Fair), New York
2019 New York Is Now, Platform Projects, Athens, Greece
2018 Surface Tension, Cooler Gallery, Brooklyn (solo)
2018 New Works, Dattner Gallery, New York (solo)
2018 Mixed Media, Site Gallery, Brooklyn
2018 Texturae, Amen, Milan, Italy
2018 The Inside, New York
2018 Life Lines, Gowanus Print Lab, New York
2018 b [x] Open Studios, Brooklyn Brush Studios, New York
2017 Color Perspective, The Curator Gallery, New York
2017 Conversations, PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, Miami
2017 Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn Brush Studios, New York
2017 Natural Selection, Galerie Protégé, New York
2017 Arts in Bushwick, House of Yes, New York
2017 Open Studios, Brooklyn Brush Studios, New York
2017 Canal Street Market, New York
2017 Platform LA, Los Angeles
2017 Architectural Digest / Design Show, New York
2016 Small Works Show, Catalyst Gallery, New York
2016 Tribeca Art Night, Uprise Art, New York
2016 Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn Brush Studios, New York
Residencies and grants
2019 Shortlisted for the Hopper Prize
2019 IPCNY, Artist Development Program, New York
2017 Canal Street Market Residency, New York
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