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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.

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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

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