Nancy Atakan

b. 1946, USA, lives and works in Istanbul.

Selected solo exhibitions include; It still is as it always was, with Kalliopi Lemos, Pi Artworks London, UK (2020); Translation in Motion, with Maria Andersson, Riksidrottsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden (2020);  Forward, March!, with Maria Andersson, Salt Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey (2019); Under the Radar: 5533, with Volkan Aslan, International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, USA (2018); Making a Shift, with Maria Andersson, NKF - Nordic Art Association, Stockholm, Sweden (2017); A Community of Lines, Pi Artworks Istanbul, Turkey (2017); Sporting Chances, Pi Artworks London, UK (2016); Incomprehensible World, Hamlet Theatre Festival, IKSV, Istanbul, Turkey (2014); Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Pi Artworks Istanbul, Turkey (2013); How Do We Know We Are Not Impostors?, Pi Artworks Istanbul, Turkey (2011); From Here 1970-2011, Pi Artworks Istanbul, Turkey (2011); Holding On, Apartment Project, Istanbul, Turkey (2009); I Believe/I Don't Believe, Pi Artworks Istanbul, Turkey (2009).

Selected group exhibitions include; Weave Braid Attach, Textile Pioneers and Contemporary Expressions, Vasteras Konstmuseum, Vasteras, Sweden (2019); Arcadia Mundi, Macro Asilo – Museo Macro, Rome, Italy (2019); Women's Library Support Exhibition, K.E.K - The Women’s Library and Information Centre Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey (2019); At the Borderline of Vitality, Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2018); Before the Past - After the Future, 6th Canakkale Biennial, Turkey; The Compiler Screenings - Our Stories, White Frame, Basel, Switzerland (2017); Small Faces, Large Sizes, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey (2015); Stay With Me, Wesenburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany (2015); 40 Videos from 40 Years of Video Art in Turkey, 25th Ankara International Film Festival, Goethe Institute, Turkey (2014); Me, Myself and I, Me as a Dilemma, CerModern, Ankara, Turkey (2013); Dream and Reality - Modern and Contemporary Women Artists from Turkey, Istanbul Modern Museum, Istanbul, Turkey (2011); Under My Feet I Want the World Not Heaven, Istanbul Next Wave, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany (2009-2010).