Elmas Deniz

Elmas Deniz (1981, Bergama, Turkey) lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. Her most recent solo exhibitions include: Three Hues of Water (Zilberman, Istanbul, Turkey, 2019), Integration with Nature (Açıkekran New Media Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, 2019), A Year Without a Summer (PİLOT, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018), Seeing the Black Panther (PİLOT, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014), Universal Minimum Wage Commission (SVILOVA, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2014) and Elmas (Maçka Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012). Her selected group exhibitions include: 16th Istanbul Biennial: The Seventh Continent (Istanbul, Turkey, 2019), Words Are Very Unnecessary (Arter, Istanbul, Turkey, 2019), Nature in Art (MOCAK, Krakow, Poland, 2019), I’m an Eye, A Mechanical Eye (Zilberman, Istanbul, Turkey, 2019), Re/Evolution (Colomboscope, Sri Lanka, 2017), VIDEO FOREVER (Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France, 2016), TILL IT’S GONE (Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey, 2016), 14th Istanbul Biennial: SALTWATER - A Theory of Thought Forms (Istanbul, Turkey, 2015), WE ARE HERE BeCAUSE YOU WERE/ARE (t)HERE (studio das weisse haus, Vienna, Austria, 2014), Unrest of Form (SECESSION/Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria, 2013). Deniz’s works are part of several public and private collections including Vehbi Koç Foundation Contemporary Art Collection.