Ilknur Demirkoparan

İlknur Demirkoparan (b. Ankara Turkiye) is a Turkish-American artist whose research-based interdisciplinary practice spans painting, installation, sculpture, digital media, and creative programming to explore identity and memory through image-making, dissemination, and repetition. She has performed and exhibited her work at the 11th Bucharest Biennial, 7th Berlin Biennial Art Wiki, Migliorisi Foundation (Asuncion), Pyxis (Lausanne) OnCurating Project Space (Zurich), Mark Borghi Fine Art (New York), Highways Performance Space and Gallery (Los Angeles), and FAR Bazaar 2017 (Los Angeles). Her writing appears in ASAP/j, FLAT Magazine, and Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. She has an MFA in Art from California Institute of the Arts and a BA in Art from the University of California, Riverside. Her recent residencies include the Future Memory Lab at the Migliorisi Foundation in Paraguay with support by ProHelvetia, and ChaNorth, New York. She is the recipient of fellowship awards from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Max H. Gluck Foundation. Demirkoparan is also the founding director of the MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture. She lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.