Academic Members

Rana Öztürk has completed her Ph.D. with her thesis Narratives of Global Modernity: International Contemporary Art Exhibitions as Places for Mapping Relational Geographies at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2015. She has also been a research scholar at the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCAM) throughout her doctoral studies. Prior to that, she received her MA in Art History from the Istanbul Technical University with her thesis An Analysis of Conceptual Art Practices in Turkey. Besides her academic work, until now she has also worked as a curator, coordinator, editor, and translator for various organizations and art events. Her most recent curatorial project Tempo Incognito: On Flows, Rhythm, and Movements, an international group exhibition took place at Depo İstanbul in March-April 2021. Previously, she curated Carpe Noctem, a solo exhibition by Aslı Narin at Milli Reasürans Art Gallery in İstanbul (2018), We All Live on the Same Sea at Sirius Art Centre, Ireland (2014), Temporarily Shelved as part of the 3rd International Sinop Biennial in Turkey (2010) (co-curated with Vaari Claffey), and Slow Space Fast Pace as part of Cork Art Trail, Ireland (2007). She has been a curator-in-residence at Fire Station Artist Studios in Dublin in August/September 2017. Her film selections Cityscape: The Ruins of the Present and The Future is Another Country from MEIndex Irish artists' moving images database were shown at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and AMINI 17 artist moving images festival at The MAC, Belfast. She organized Repetition & Cycle Talks and Performance Series I & II at SALT Galata, Istanbul in October 2017 and March 2018 with Sinem Dişli. She has been contributing to various art magazines, catalogues and publications since 2001. Rana is currently based in Istanbul and has taught art history, contemporary art criticism and theory, and visual culture at Yeditepe University, Bilgi University, and Boğaziçi University. She has been working as an Assistant Professor at İstinye University since 2018.