At the 554th Art Meeting, we are visiting the studio of artist Gonca Sezer.

Gonca Sezer was born in Istanbul in 1964. After completing her undergraduate studies in Painting at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts Faculty in 1981, she completed her master's program in the same department in 1986. Starting in 1985, even before graduating, she participated in many group exhibitions, and in 1988, she held her first solo exhibition at Garanti Art Gallery in Istanbul.

In 2002, she received a scholarship from the "Virginia Center for the Creative Arts" and went to America to conduct research at the University of Virginia. In Turkey, she has held numerous group and solo exhibitions at venues such as PG Art Gallery, Drimart, and Istanbul Modern, and abroad, she has participated in significant exhibitions in countries such as Bulgaria, South Korea, China, Poland, and Germany.

In her practice, Sezer focuses on identity, social values, and the role models transformed by these values, working with stories outside of official historical narratives and found objects. She makes the transformations in society visible by examining remnants of daily life through people, animals, and objects.

Among her recent exhibitions; in 2021, in her solo exhibition titled "In My Handkerchief" at 44A Art Gallery, she focused on social role models through handkerchiefs, a childhood object, while in 2018, in her exhibition "The Tail Issue" at Gama Gallery, she looked at girls' schools and the history of education through found objects such as her aunt's nature textbook.

Among her recent exhibitions, in 2026, in her exhibition "The Door That Opens While Living" at Quick Art Space, she examined fragments of life through social counter-memory, depicting memory images experienced between the old architecture and the plants and flowers of Istanbul.

The artist, a member of UNESCO A.I.A.P. International Association of Plastic Arts/Turkey, currently lives in Istanbul and continues her artistic work.

Wednesday, April 29

12:00-13:00