Born in Istanbul, Turkey; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2020 A Warm Place, solo exhibition, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, August 14th - Sep 11th,
2019 Wonderland, two person exhibition, Wrong Side of the River Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, April 12th - May 3rd,
2018 Zwei Positionen, joint/ two person exhibition, Kunstverein in Ludwigsburg Museum, Ludwigsburg, Germany, May 3rd - July 5th, (catalog)
2014 Playground, solo exhibition, Olcay Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, November 4th - December 14th, (catalog)
Awards and Honors
2021 Artist in residence, LMCC (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) Arts Center Residency Program, Governors Island, NY (Sep 1 - Dec 20)
2021 Artist in residence, ChaNorth (Chashama), Pine Plains, NY, April
2020 Grand Prize, See.Me ‘Represent’ Competition
2019 Wolf Kahn & Emily Mason Painting Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, VT, November
2019 Artist grant, The Sculpture Foundation of Gerald Siciliano
2018 People’s Choice Award, Jonathan LeVine Projects’ Delusional Art Competition
2018 Artist in Residence, Pilotenkueche, Leipzig, Germany, Oct 1 - Dec 25
2016 Grand Prize, Dave Bown Projects Competition
2007-2010 Presidential Merit Based Scholarship, Pratt Grant and President’s List, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Education
2012 New York Academy of Art, NY – MFA – Painting
2010 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY – BFA – Painting with Highest Honors
1998 Ege University, Izmir, Turkey – BArch – Landscape Architecture
Selected Exhibitions
2021
A Voice To Be Heard, Arts Council of Princeton, NJ
Give Me Some Skin, Sugarlift, New York
15th Anniversary Exhibition, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Wish You Were Here, Sally Centigrade Gallery, Lakewood, CO
Summer Exhibition, Wilkinson Gallery, NY
Through Her Eyes, Gallery 300, Sebastopol, CA (upcoming)
2020
The Immigrant Artist Biennial - The Imminent Arrival, New York
Darkest Before Dawn: Art in a Time of Uncertainty, Ethan Cohen Gallery KuBe, Beacon, NY
ACSKSVII, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Select 5, Garvey Simon Gallery, New York
SCOPE Immersive Miami Beach, with SEE.Me
BorderWalls II, the Border, Brooklyn, NY
Art4Equality x Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness, the Untitled Space, New York
Refuge, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Summer Exhibition, Wilkinson Gallery, NY
Young Blood, Space Gallery St Barth, New York
GIFC, the Hole Gallery, New York
Hoarders House, Field Projects, New York
2019
Painting the Figure Now, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, WI
Body Beautiful, the Untitled Space, New York
Contemporary Istanbul, Art Fair, with Sevil Dolmaci Art, Istanbul, Turkey
Portal: Governors Island, Art Fair, Governors Island, NY
Movie Night, Ille Arts Gallery, Amagansett, NY
IRL: Investigating Reality, the Untitled Space, NY
Distance and Happiness, Dreams and Time, 4 person exhibition, Artworks, Trenton, NJ
Summer Exhibition, Wilkinson Gallery, New York
Bliss, curated by Helena Christensen and Brooke Shields, Mandarin Oriental, Miami, FL
Relationship, Gallery Gary Giardiano, Lambertville, NJ
Women Artists Exhibition, Dacia Gallery, New York
2018
SouthWest Brooklyn Biennial, Kustera Projects, Brooklyn, NY
ANJE, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, WI
Rutschbahn, Krudebude, Leipzig, Germany
Speech Bubble, Alte Handelsschule, Leipzig, Germany
The Real Men, curated by Brooke Shields and David Kratz, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Miami, FL
Governors Island Art Fair 2018, Governors Island, NY
Summer Exhibition, Flowers Gallery, New York
Join the Dots - Connect the Distances, exhibition by Imago Mundi Foundation - Luciano Benetton Collection, Salone deli Incanti, Trieste, Italy
2017
Game On!, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Mediterranean Routes, Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo at Zisa Zona Arti Contemporanee, Palermo, Italy
No-prescription, Ekavart Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Bushwick Invitational, ArtHelix Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Women Painting Women: Our Collective Conscience, RJD Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
Nasty Women Exhibition, Knockdown Art Center, Queens, NY
Forces, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2015
Art Southampton, with New York Academy of Art, Bridgehampton, NY
Who’s Afraid of Feminism, Women’s Caucus for Art, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Primavera, Dacia Gallery, New York
Made In New York, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY
2014
Contemporary Istanbul, Art Fair, with Olcay Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Motus in Figuris, Dacia Gallery, New York
Superficies, Bolit Centre d’Art Contemporani Girona, Girona, Spain
Serendipitous Synergy, the Kamakura Arts Center, Tokyo, Japan
2013
50th Annual Juried Competition Exhibition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
Contemporary Istanbul, Art Fair, with Olcay Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Summer Exhibition; Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York
2012
Contemporary Istanbul, Art Fair, with Olcay Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Reunion Show, Wilkinson Gallery, New York Academy of Art, NY
Take Home a Nude, Benefit Auction, Sotheby’s, NY
2011
Summer Exhibition; Flowers Gallery, New York
Take Home a Nude, Benefit Auction, Sotheby’s, NY
Bibliography
Artspeak, Artspeak.nyc, Buket Savci Artist Survey, May 3, 2021
All Arts TV, Flowstate Series, Episode 103: Buket Savci, TV broadcast and on allarts.org, YouTube, March 10, 2021
https://allarts.org/programs/flowstate-north-brooklyn-artists/buket-savci-zxxk95/
American Art Collector Magazine, Select 5 show review, issue #183, Jan 2021, pp 78-79
Whitehot Magazine, “On Non-Hierarchical Space:Buket Savci at Manifest Gallery”by Daniel Maidman,10/16/20
Create! Magazine, issue #21, Aug 2020, pp 68-69-and back cover
Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, ‘More Amazing Entries! Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize’ by Natalia Joruk, 8/14/2020
https://beautifulbizarre.net/2020/08/14/entries-beautiful-bizarre-art-prize-2020/
Brooklyn Downtown Star, “In new exhibit, artists interpret forms of ‘refuge” by Sara Krevoy, 7/23/2020
Milliyet Sanat Magazine, ‘Bakin ne kadar da mutluyuz!’ by Sevil Dolmaci, Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 2019
Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, ‘Poets and Artists “Movie Night” Exhibition at Ille Arts’ by Bella Harris, 9/23/2019
https://beautifulbizarre.net/2019/09/23/poetsartists-movie-night-exhibition/
Der Tagesspiegel, “Contemporary Istanbul - Weisse Wagen vor dem Tor” by Werner Bloch, Germany, 9/20/2019
Glare Magazine, ‘In Real Life’ by Sasha Leon, June 2019
Dazed Magazine, ”This art show blends surrealism & realism to question what reality even is” by Justice Waul, 6/18/2019
Curated by Girls, “IRL: Investigating Reality” Group Show at the Untitled Space’, June 2019
Greenpointers.com, Thursday Spotlight: “Buket Savci On Creating Fleeting Moments of Pure Joy” by Billy McEntee, 4/18/2019
Poets and Artists Magazine: ‘Figurative Realism’, 100th issue, Dec 2018
Acik Radio,“Zwei Positionen” Buket Savci and Sibel Horada, on Celenk Bafra’s “Haricten Sanat”, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2018
Hurriyet Newspaper, “Two Turkish Women Artists’ Extraordinary Exhibition in Germany”, Turkey, 5/11/2018
Stuttgarter Zeitung, “Glucksmomente vor oder nach dem Sex”, Stuttgart, Germany, 5/4/2018
Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung, “Vom Gegensatz der Perspektiven”, Ludwigsburg, Germany, 5/4/2018
Zwei Positionen Sibel Horada - Buket Savci, exhibition catalog, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany, 2018
L-TV : interview about the “Zwei Positionen” exhibition streamed on German TV, May 2018
7th International Painting Annual, Manifest Press, Cincinnati, OH, 2018
Poets and Artists Magazine: ‘Eros Gaze’, issue #93, May 2018
American Art Collector Magazine, issue #131, Sep 2016
Istanbul Codex: Contemporary Artists from Turkey, Imago Mundi Foundation, L. Benetton Collection, 2016
Who’s Afraid of Feminism, Exhibition Catalog, Women’s Caucus for Art, August 2015, p 153
Greenpointers.com, Eight Brilliant Painters with Studios in Greenpoint, by Ona Abelis, 2/15/2015
Quantumartreview.com, ‘Playground’ A Preview of Buket Savci’s Solo Exhibition at Olcay Art in Istanbul by Jacob Hicks, 11/3/2014
Bushwick Daily; review of Greenpoint Open Studios, by Danielle Kalamaras, 10/7/2014
The Wild Magazine, “What To See at Greenpoint Open Studios this Weekend”, by Kate Messinger, 10/2/2014
The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture, Donald Kuspit, Irving Sandler, Margaret McCann, Rizzoli, Sep 2014
“Buket Savci”, exhibition catalog, essay by Esra Alicavusoglu, Olcay Art, Istanbul, 2014
Poets and Artists Magazine, issue #52, June 2014
Ekav Art TV, Turkey’s primary online Art TV, interview, “Portrait Buket Savci Atature”, 2012
http://www.ekavart.tv/sanatcilar/diger/portre-buket-savci-atature
Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 18, the Open Studios Press, 2012. pp 8-9
Artist Talks
FIT, NY, February 08, 2021
Pratt Institute, School of Art, Brooklyn, NY, October 27, 2020
SMU, School of the Arts, Dallas, TX, October 19, 2020
Southern Oregon University, OR, September 30, 2020
A Conversation with curator Michaeline Sander, Represent Grand Prize Winner Buket Savci moderated by Brendan Burns, Live Stream,
www.See.Me, September 17, 2020
Pratt Institute, School of Art, Brooklyn, NY, February 2020
James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, August 2016
Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2014
Teaching
Johnson Elementary School, volunteered for hands-on instruction at art classes during my fellowship at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT November 2019
Wrong Side of the River Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, after founding the project space, while co-directing and organizing exhibitions, taught private lessons focusing on drawing, still life, composition and value. Mar - Nov 2019
New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, post-graduate teaching assistant for Intaglio Printmaking Jan – May 2013
Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, teaching assistant for Intermediate Printmaking Sep – Dec 2012