Serkan Özkaya
| Serkan Özkaya | |
|---|---|
| Born | Turkey |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Education | Bard College, Istanbul University |
| Known for | Contemporary art, Conceptual art |
| Awards | MacDowell Colony, Society of Newspaper Design, Civitella Ranieri |
Serkan Özkaya (1973) is a Turkish conceptual artist whose work deals with topics of appropriation and reproduction, and typically operates outside of traditional art spaces. Özkaya lives in New York City. He holds an M.F.A. from Bard College, New York, and a Ph.D in German Language and Literature from Istanbul University, where he also earned his B.A. and M.A.
Özkaya has been an artist-in-residence at the École Régionale des Beaux Arts de Nantes (2000–2001), Rooseum in Malmö with the IASPIS grant (2002), Platform Recent Art Center in Istanbul (2003–2004), and at Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2006). He is also a fellow of the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire.
MyMoon, 2015
MyMoon is an artwork by Serkan Ozkaya. It is a large round rock floating in the sky, that is visible through the smart phone via MyMoon app. Using the smart phone's GPS and compass, MyMoon app detects the object in the sky and makes it visible. MyMoon rotates in close proximity to the moon in the sky. Yet unlike the earth's satellite, it is visible outdoors and indoors.
Mirage, 2013
Mirage was installed at the Postmasters Gallery in New York and consisted of a shadow of a passenger airplane that crossed the room for 45 seconds every four minutes. The shadow here was considered not as the mere absence of light but rather as a material in and of itself which could then be sculpted.
One and Three Pasta (with George L. Legendre), 2012
Serkan Ozkaya collaborated with the architect George L. Legendre to create replicas after computer models of 92 types of pasta (based on Legendreʼs mathematical equations). The actual pieces of pasta were displayed next to their generative equations. One and Three Pasta references to canonical works like Joseph Kosuthʼs One and Three Chairs and Donald Juddʼs untitled stacks.
Atlas, 2011
Atlas is a contribution to a walking museum wherein Ozkaya constructed a rock to be strapped to the curator's back and promenaded daily throughout the streets of New York. Ozkaya came up with the idea of making ‘the museum’ wander around the streets of New York with his new piece: a giant rock.
What A Museum Should Really Look Like (Large Glass), 2000
Ozkaya collected roughly 30,000 slides from artists, galleries, and institutions and showed them on one of the largest galleries in the main pedestrian street of Istanbul, the Kazim Taskent Art Gallery. What A Museum Should Really Look Like represented a giant mosaic of individual images. During the day the slides were readable from the inside of the gallery and at night, with the lights on, they became a scene for the street. This piece was later initiated in Utrecht, the Netherlands in a much larger scale with 100,000 slides.
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