Fatma Bucak Explained

Fatma Bucak
Birth Date:1984
Birth Place:Turkey
Education:Royal College of Art,[1] Accademia Albertina
Known For:Photography, Performance Art, Video Installations

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

Biography

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

Solo exhibitions

Group Exhibitions and Biennials

Awards

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

Books

Notes and References

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

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