İPEK DUBEN

Selected Solo Exhibitions  

2009    İPEK DUBEN: A selection 1994-2009, Akbank Art Center, Istanbul, [cat.]
2007    Crossing, ART 101 Gallery, New York
2001    LoveYouForever, Stephen Gang Gallery, New York
    LoveBook, The Catherine G. Murphy Galleries, St. Paul, Minnesota
1996    Manuscript 1994, The Catherine G. Murphy Galleries, St. Paul, Minnesota
    Manuscript 1994, Irvine Fine Arts Center, California
1994    Manuscript 1994, Istanbul Taksim Municipal Art Gallery
    Manuscript 1994, Gallery Nev, Ankara
1991    İpek Aksüğür Duben, Maçka Art Gallery
1989    İpek Aksüğür Duben, Gallery Nev, Ankara
1988    İpek Aksüğür Duben, Maçka Art Gallery
1985    Drawings, Burgh House, London
1982    İpek Aksüğür Duben, Istanbul State Gallery of Fine Arts
1979    İpek Aksüğür Duben, Yapı ve Endüstri Center Art Gallery


Selected Group Exhibitions  

2010    A Dream... But Not Yours, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.    
            [cat.]                

Nomad, The Bibliotheca Alexandrina Fourth International Biennale for the Artist’s book, [cat.]

Who’s Who/Kim Kimdir, 6-th Moscow International Artist’s Book Fair [cat.]

2009    New Works New Horizons, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art [cat.]

Istanbul Next Wave:Under my feet I want the world, not heaven, Akademie der Künst, Berlin, [cat.]  

Threads: Interweaving Textu[r]al Meanings, Center for Book Arts, New York, [cat.]

2008    IsimŞehir / MemoryCity, Kartal and Ümraniye Municipal Cultural Centers, Istanbul, [cat.]
    Thinking Garbage/Düşünen Çöpler, (video), International Short Film Festival,     Oberhausen, Germany
2007    Modern and Beyond: 1950-2000, Santralistanbul, Istanbul, [cat.]
    Everything is Alright, Apartment Project, Istanbul
    Farewellmyhomeland, (video), “Homeland Borders and Boundaries”, Video Festival,     Mexicali, Mexico
      Farewellmyhomeland, (video), Baja California’s Culture Institute, Arts Latina video             festival
    Farewellmyhomeland, (video), Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
    Farewellmyhomeland, (video), “Team Players for Plausible Art Worlds”, Event Series,     Ica, Philadelphia
2006    Substance and Light: Ten Sculptors Use Cameras, Munson-Williams-Proctor Art     Museum, Utica, New York, [cat.]
        Fourth International Artist’s Book Exhibition, King St. Stephen Museum, Hungary, [cat.]
    Contemporary Art from Turkey and Korea, Incheon Center For Contemporary Art,
    Korea
     Oriental Underground in Europe, Liteside Festival, Amsterdam
    Significant Works (Ağır İşler), Piramid Art Gallery, Istanbul
    The First International Sinop Biennial, Turkey, [cat.]
        Thinking Garbage, (video), River’s Edge Film Festival, Kentucky
        Thinking Garbage, (video), “Too Much Freedom”, L.A. Freewaves, 10th New Media Art
     Festival, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
    Thinking Garbage, (video), “Coding: Decoding: Exhibition”, The Museum of
     Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
    Thinking Garbage, (video), “(In) Place of Fear”, Imaf 8th International Multimedia Art
    Festival, Serbia and Montenegro
2005    Nations and Origins, Gallery Nord, Berlin
    Gallery Opening Exhibition, Istanbul Modern Arts Gallery
    Bir Bilanço (An Accounting), Karşı Sanat Gallery, Istanbul
2004    Bibliotheca Alexandrina’s First International Biennial for Hand Printed Artists’ Books
    Egypt, [cat.]    
    Call Me Istanbul, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
    The Art Incubator Inaugural Art Exhibition, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
    Time Lines Reading the City of Signs:Istanbul:revealed or mystified?, Aksanat Art     Gallery, Istanbul, [cat.]
2003    Time Lines Reading the City of Signs:Istanbul:revealed or mystified?,
    The Architecture Centre, Bristol, UK; Istanbul Bilgi University; University of
     Nottingham, UK; London College of Communication, [cat.]
2001    The Fifth Sharjah International Arts Biennial, U.A.E., [cat.]
     Re:Duchamp Travelling Exhibition, Istanbul
    Justice and Politics, Modena, Italy
     Fifth Annual Loft Pioneer, Puffinroom Gallery, New York
2000    Istanbul Round Trip, Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul, [cat.]
    Veritas Omnia Vincit, TÜYAP, Istanbul
     Temizlik Malzemeleri Dükkanı (Cleaning Materials Store), Apartment Project, Istanbul
1999    Private Mythologies, Westbeth Gallery, New York
1998    Sculpture Space, Resident Artist, Utica, New York
    Karamustafa Import-Export, Museum fur Volkerkunde, Vienna
1997    Karamustafa Import-Export, Echoraum, Vienna
     Karamustafa Import-Export, Feriye Art Gallery, Istanbul
1996    Figuring in the Figure, Montclair State University Art Galleries, New Jersey
1995-    OpPositions, Museum voor Volkenkunde Rotterdam
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1995    Ephesus-The Imagination of History, Ephesus, Turkey
1994    Hunter College Invitational, Hunter College Galleries, New York
1993    Cumhuriyetten Günümüze Kadın Sanatçılar (Women Artists from the Beginning of the
     Republic to the Present), Istanbul Museum of Archeology, [cat.]
    Altmışaltı Kare (Sixty-six Squares), TÜYAP, Istanbul, [cat.]
1992    New York–Istanbul, Atatürk Cultural Center, Istanbul
    Drawers, Gallery Maison dela  Ceramique, Mulhouse, France
1991    Recollection/MemoryI (Anı/Bellek1), Istanbul Taksim Municipal Art Gallery



Artist’s  Books
2010    Nomad, hand-made book, cotton duck, synthetic silk, photo prints, hand embroidery,                                       ,     thread, metal screws, single edition
2009    Who’s Who, digital prints, 70 editions
2006-   Crossing, hand- made albume, hand embroidered photo prints on silk, wire, single edition
2004    Farewell My Homeland, hand- made, synthetic silk and metal, two                                         editions
2003     What is a Turk? Six sets of thirty accordion postcards, 250 editions
2001    Love Book, hand- made, steel, single edition
1994    Mannuscript 1994, Mas publishers, Istanbul 1994, 500 editions, catalogued by
        Printed Matter, New York, 1996; in the collection of MOMA, New York
        and BANFF, Canada

Video
2007    Farewellmyhomeland  4’ 20”
2005    Thinking Garbage  2’28” (with Nancy Atakan)
2004    What is a Turk? 11’10”
2001    Loveyouforever  5’
1996    Manuscript 1994, 3’30” edited by D. Froese

Curatorial
2001   Re:Duchamp, Travelling Exhibition, Istanbul
1990   Pera Ressamları:1873-1908 (Painters of Pera:1873-1908),  Beymen Gallery, Istanbul

Teaching
Istanbul Sabancı University, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul Boğaziçi University, Yıldız Technical University (Istanbul), Izmir Ekonomi University, New York University (New York)

Grants and Awards   

2006    Moon and Stars Project, New York
        Turkish Ministry of Culture
    Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
        Robert College Alumni Association
1998     Artist in residence at Sculpture Space, Utica, New York
1985     Istanbul Turco-British Association  
1981     Award for painting, “Contemporary Istanbul Artists”
1961-    Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Rotary Club, and various
69         University of Chicago fellowships and grants

COLLECTIONS
Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, British Museum, Bibliotheca Alexandrina,  Museum voor Volkenkunde Rotterdam, Museum of the City of Istanbul, Istanbul Turco-British Association. Private collections in the United States, Turkey, Japan, France, United Kingdom.