Artist Profiles

GR 02 Gara Rasul (1955-2023) was a Kurdish painter, art critic, art theorist, and writer born in Kirkuk. Born in 1955, Rasul began his artistic education at...

Gara RASUL

PAINTER

HH 03 Hana Hozhabr Pour is a Toronto-based visual artist from Sinê in Iranian Kurdistan, working across painting, installation, and mixed media. ...

Hana Hozhabr Pour

ARTIST

JW 04 Jala Wahid Born in London in 1988 to a Kurdish family that migrated from Kurdistan to Britain, Jala Wahid currently lives and works in the city. She c...

Jala WAHID

MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST

LY 05 Leyla Yenirce is a contemporary artist, musician, and filmmaker born in 1992 in Qubînê, Kurdistan, and currently living and working in Berlin. She mai...

Leyla YENİRCE

MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST

MC 06 Mahmut Celayir was born in 1951 in the village of Kur in Bingöl. He spent his childhood in this village, where harsh natural conditions prevailed...

Mahmut CELAYİR

PAINTER

SP 07 Semyanî Perîzade is a Kurdish artist, musician, and actress born on May 20, 1981. She was born the youngest of eleven children. In 1992&nd...

Semyanî PERÎZADE

MUSICIAN

SR 08 Sîmir Rûdan, was born in Cizre in 1981. In 1999, he moved to Ankara to study philosophy at Hacettepe University. During his university yea...

Sîmir RÛDAN

MUSICIAN

TB 09 Tehsîn Baravî, was born in Mardin, Türkiye. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Education at Dicle University. He is a co-founder...

Tehsîn Baravî

PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST

HK 10 Hardi Kurda is a composer, sound artist, improviser, violinist, and researcher. He is the founder and curator of SPACE21 Sound Gallery, based in Sulay...

Hardi KURDA

SOUND ARTİST

YK 11 Karakaş graduated from the Photography and Video program of the Faculty of Arts and Design at Yıldız Technical University in 2012. She has participate...

Yonca KARAKAŞ

ARTIST

HK 12 Hayv Kahraman Born in Baghdad in 1981, Hayv Kahraman left Iraq with her family during the 1990s and initially sought refuge in Sweden. She later reloc...

Hayv KAHRAMAN

ARTİST

SH 13 Shadi Harouni (1985, Hamedan, Iran), is an Iranian Kurdish artist and art critic based in the United States. She is currently Professor and Head of th...

Shadi HAROUNI

MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST

HA 14 Havîn Al-Sindy is a contemporary artist whose practice is based between Germany and Kurdistan. Following her studies in biology and chemistry, Al-Sind...

Havîn AL–SİNDY

MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST

HK 15 Hiwa K is a contemporary Kurdish artist born in Sulaymaniyah in 1975. He is widely recognized for his multilayered artistic practice addressing exile,...

Hiwa K

MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST

SS 16 Sakar Sleman was born in 1979 in Sulaymaniyah, where he continues to live and work. His multidisciplinary practice, moving across painting, installati...

Sakar SLEMAN

ARTIST

PÖ 17 Born in Van in 1973, Pınar Öğrenci is an artist with a background in architecture, currently living and working in Berlin. Since the late 1990s, she h...

Pınar ÖĞRENCİ

MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST

WS 18 Born in 1954 in Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan, Walid Siti graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad in 1976. He subsequently moved to Slovenia to ...

Walid SİTİ

ARTİST

MK 19 Melike Kara is a contemporary artist born in 1985 in Bensberg, Germany, and currently based in Cologne. Working with painting, installation, and archi...

Melike KARA

ARTİST

CÇ 20 Cihan Çakmak is a visual artist born in 1993 in Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Germany. Based in Berlin and Lisbon, she develops an interdisciplinary practice ...

Cihan ÇAKMAK

MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST

ÖM 21 Born in Mardin in 1989, Ömer Mirdemir initially studied Physics at Dicle University before discontinuing his studies and subsequently completing a deg...

Ömer MİRDEMİR

ARTİST

NS 22 Niga is a Kurdish artist, curator, and researcher based in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Working across mediums such as photography, moving ...

Niga SALAM

ARTİST

DC 23 Dilan Cudi Saruhan is an interdisciplinary artist based in Istanbul. She completed her undergraduate studies in the Department of Sculpture at Marmara...

Dİlan CUDİ SARUHAN

ARTİST