About
Suzan Batu is a painter, curator, textile and performance artist. After graduating as a translator from the University of Graz, Austria, she moved to the US to study art at the California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA where she received her BFA. Her MFA she received from Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY.
Subsequently she participated in many group shows and had solo shows in the US, also in among other countries Turkey, Belgium and Holland. Working with Bill Doherty they curated Fashioned the inaugural show for White Box Gallery, NY. Among other group shows. That show then travelled to Philadelphia in 1998 and 1999. She works in painting, textiles, costume design and performance. She lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey.
Performance
2023 States of Migration
Highline, New York City
2023 Time is Love: Performance by Suzan Batu
Kethüda Hamamı in Ortaköy, İstanbul
2022 Costume Design for Parade Performance, Küratör: Genco Gülan, Ekavart Gallery, Istanbul
2019 "Cycle Of Life" followed by "Apollo And Daphne"
Barış Manço Kültür Merkezi, İstanbul
2018 The Sümerbank Goddess `Henna Night`
the Phatory New York
2018 The Sümerbank Goddess 'Saadet Türköz Performance'
Zülfü Livaneli Kültür Merkezi, İstanbul
2017 The Sümerbank Goddess The Awakening
Ark Kültür, İstanbul
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Kadının Fendi, Ege University, Izmir
Tanrıçanın Günlüğü, Diary of the Goddess, BEContemporary, Izmir
2019 the Phatory, New York
Barış Manço Kültür Merkezi. Istanbul
2018 the Phatory, NYC
Zülfü Livaneli Sanat Galerisi, Ankara, Turkey
2017 John Jay College, New York. Long term installation
2016 Experimental Intermedia, Gent, Belgium
the Phatory, New York
2015 Piramid Sanat, Istanbul
the Phatory, New York
2014 Dirimart, Istanbul
2012 the Phatory, New York
2011 the Phatory, New York
2010 Dirimart, Istanbul
2008 Dirimart, Istanbul
2007 the Phatory, New York
2006 GF Gallery, Izmir
Dirimart, Istanbul
2004 Jan Colle Gallery, Gent, Belgium (with Thomas Broadbent)
2003 OHT Gallery, Boston
Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont (with Shirin Neshat)
2001 Jeffrey Coploff Gallery, New York.
2000 Shores Gallery, Amsterdam
1999 Jeffrey Coploff Gallery, New York
1998 Jeffrey Coploff Gallery, New York (with Jeremy Kidd)
1997 Croxhapox Gallery, Gent, Belgium
Atatürk Cultural Center, Istanbul
1994 Taksim Art Gallery, Istanbul
1993 Atatürk Cultural Center, Istanbul
1992 BM Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
1991 Atrium Gallery, Simon’s Rock of Bard College, Massachusetts
Group Exhibitions
2022 Parade Costume Performance, Küratör: Genco Gülan, Istanbul
Love 360 Degrees, Soho House, Istanbul
Ortakalan, Küratör: Gül Ilgaz, Istanbul
Weaving the Future, Küratör: Pınar Akalın, CerModern, Ankara
2021 REPurpose, BEContemporary, Istanbul
Pandemi Eskizleri, Küratör: Belma Ersu, Ankara
2020 Kırmızı Ardıç Kuşu Sanat Galerisi, Küratör: Genco Gülan, Damla Durman, Çeşme Turkey
Contemporary Art From Turkey, Küratör: Bedri Baykam, Kiev
2018 Ilgın, Küme Art
The Hinterland Lansman Sergisi, Küratör: Pırıl Gündüz, Lucca
2017 Ark Kültür, İstanbul
2016 Elevator Music, Newark, New Jersey
2013 The Armory Show, New York, Dirimart Gallery
2011 Swissotel, Istanbul, Geleceğe 20 Açı (Benefit project for AÇEV)
Dubai Art Fair, Dubai, Dirimart Gallery
2010 Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, Istanbul, Dirimart Gallery
With Space Gallery, Beijing, China, Pattern Recognition
Dirimart Gallery, Istanbul, Dirimart Presents
Dubai Art Fair, Dubai, Dirimart Gallery
The Armory Show, New York, Dirimart Gallery
Metaphor Contemporary Art Gallery, New York, Slippery When Wet
2009 Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, Istanbul, Dirimart Gallery
2008 Metaphor Contemporary Art Gallery, New York, Mischief
2007 Metaphor Contemporary Art Gallery, New York, Punchbowl
Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, Istanbul
2005 IMSG, İstanbul, Bu Sizin İçin
2004 Metaphor Contemporary Art Gallery, New York, War and Peace
2003 Alpan Gallery, New York
White Box Gallery, New York
Embassy Program, U.S. Consulate, Istanbul
2002 White Box, New York
Parker Gallery, New Jersey
Embassy Program, U.S. Embassy, Mauritius
Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
Jeffrey Coploff Gallery, New York
2001 Exit Art, New York
Im & Il, New York
2000 Robert Fullerton Museum, California State University, San Bernardino, Eye Candy: Women painters from L.A. and N.Y., curated by Sue Joyce
L.A. and N.Y., curated by Sue Joyce
Artnet.com, Abstraction
1999 Workspace, New York, Skin Tight
White Columns, New York, Outer Boroughs
Jeffrey Coploff Gallery, Selections
Videoland, New York
White Box Gallery, Philadelphia, Fashioned, curated by Suzan Batu and Bill Doherty
1998 White Box Gallery, New York, Fashioned, curated by Suzan Batu and Bill Doherty
Islip Museum, New York, Brite Magic, curated by Carolanna Parlato
Atatürk Cultural Center, Istanbul, Abstract Inclinations in Turkish Painting, curated by Yahşi Baraz
Crest Hardware Show, Brooklyn, N.Y., curated by Gene Pool
1997 Koç University, Istanbul, Aesthetic Dynamics in Modern Turkish Painting, curated by Yahşi Baraz
Jeffrey Coploff Gallery, New York, Fresh
Viscio Studios, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1996 Jeffrey Coploff Gallery, New York, Light & Color
Annie Herron Productions, New York, The Art Exchange Show
#1118, New York, Living with It, curated by Suzan Batu, Gary Petersen, Paul Lembersky
1995 Viscio Studios, Brooklyn, N.Y., R-Town
450 Broadway, New York, Page 17
1993 Artists’ Space, New York
Drawing Center, New York, Exquisite Corpse
Barbara Scott Gallery, Miami, Florida
Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, New York, Cartoonal Knowledge
Gallery 313, New York
1992 Second Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul
Atatürk Cultural Center, Istanbul
Herron Test-Site, New York
Blondie’s, New York
1991 Westbeth Gallery, New York, Three Artists
1981 Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland, California
1980 Sonoma State University, Sonoma, California
Exhibitions Curated
2010 8.Korea – Turkey Contemporary Art Exchange Show, MKM Gallery, Istanbul
2009 KÜF-MOLD-ROTTERDAM, Holland (with Bill Doherty and Marijke Bontinck under the pseudonym KOOH) http://kuf-mold.blogspot.com/
1555 ARK, Istanbul (with Eti Behar, Nur Ataibis, Genco Gülan)
2008 KÜF -MOLD-GENT, Belgium (with Bill Doherty and Marijke Bontinck under the pseudonym KOOH) HAZ, Adresistanbul, Istanbul (with Eti Behar, Nur ataibis, Genco Gülan)
2007 KÜF-MOLD, Grand Bazaar, Istanbul (with Bill Doherty and Marijke Bontinck under the pseudonym KOOH) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKCNpPeGqzE
1999 Fashioned, White Box Gallery, Philadelphia (with Bill Doherty under the pseudonym KOOH)
1998 Fashioned, White Box Gallery, New York (with Bill Doherty under the pseudonym KOOH)
1996 Living with It, #1118, New York, curated by Suzan Batu, Gary Petersen, Paul Lembersky
Seminars / Conferences
2003 School of Applied Arts and Sciences, Graz, Austria
2001 C.W. Post University, New York
1998 Islip Museum, New York