Funda Alkan was born in 1985 in Izmir. She graduated from Dokuz Eylül University Buca Education Faculty – Art Teaching Dept. in 2007 and completed her master’s degree at Department of Painting at Faculty of Fine Arts in Dokuz Eylül University in 2010.
Funda focuses on the beauty standards imposed by society on women and women body in her works where she uses techniques such as cutting, pasting, sewing and embroidery. Seeking an answer to the question of “freedom or conviction of the body?” the artist focuses on the pressures that marginalize women and position them as an independent identity, and the mental and physical violence that the female body is subjected to.
2022 New Generation 7, dön,üşü’m, Curator: Haydar Akdağ, Ekavart Gallery
2022 Stories, with Art50.net, 39 Kalamış Marina Hotel – 39 Art Gallery
2022 Yaklaş_2030 Co – Art Co – Act project exhibition, Özyeğin University – Istanbul
2022 ARTWEEKS Akaretler, with MIXER Art Gallery – Istanbul
2021 ALL IN ONE’02, with Art50.net, Gallery Bu – Istanbul
2021 The Cycle of Time, with Art50.net, Swissotel The Bosphorus – Istanbul
2016 Girls Girls Girls, Carbon Gallery – Istanbul
2015 Contemporary Istanbul with Kuad Gallery
2015 FINE TUNED AND MULTIPLE / Fine Tuned And Plural, Kuad Gallery – Istanbul
2015 Avangarde Collection Exhibition – Istanbul
2014 Contemporary Istanbul with Daire Gallery
2014 Modern & Contemporary Arab, Iranian & Turkish Art, Christies – Dubai
2014 Artist Book Exhibition Pg Art Gallery – Istanbul
2013 Contemporary Istanbul with Daire Gallery
2013 Cage / Cage, solo exhibition, Daire Gallery – Istanbul
2013 Southern Panama Biennale – Panama City
2013 Salt Abstract, Mixer – Istanbul
2012 Preview Berlin Art Fair – Germany
2012 Turquoise, Galerie Maurits Vad de Laar – Netherlands
2012 Turkish Contemporary Art, Art Space London – England
2012 Daire #1, Daire Gallery – Istanbul
2012 Sotheby’s “Contemporary Art / Turkish” – London
2012 Coca Cola Gallery Red Collection Exhibition – Istanbul
2012 Figure Out / Contemporary Turkish Art, Art Sawa – Dubai
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