Hayal Pozanti

Hayal Pozanti (born 1983, Istanbul, Turkey)[1] is a Turkish-born artist, based in the United States.[2][3] She is known for her large scale, brightly colored, seemingly abstract and geometric paintings, that represent statistical data related to human-computer interaction.[4]

Hayal Pozanti
Born1983 (age 36–37)
Istanbul, Turkey
Alma materYale University
Sabancı University

Life and work

Hayal Pozanti studied visual arts and visual communication design at Sabancı University in Istanbul and went on to study at Yale University, receiving a M.F.A. in painting and printmaking in 2011.[1][5][6] Her work is informed by her ongoing exploration of "cyborg anthropology", which she describes as "a framework for understanding the effects of technology on human beings and culture".[7][8]

Her work Ciphers (2015) was a direct rendering of data into a glyph alphabet, and limiting herself to the creation of 31 characters.[9] The paintings from Ciphers (2015) feature layered abstractions of the shapes, and were displayed in the gallery with abstract sculptures of similar shapes.[9]

Pozanti revisited this theme of alphabet in her work named Instant Paradise (2017), where again she has invented alphabet of 31 shapes.[3][8][10] This lexicon is the source material for her paintings, sculptures, animations and sound pieces. Each shape in Instant Paradise has been assigned a number and a letter from the English alphabet, allowing her to literally 'translate' information through a personalized encryption system. She has created a typeface from her characters, as well as phonemes that she resources for her animations and her sound pieces, respectively.[1][2]

Pozanti's work is in several public collections, including Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, JP Morgan, Fidelity Investments, and the San Jose Museum of Art.[11]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
  • 2018 – Murmurs of Earth, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, California[12]
  • 2017 – .tr, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey[13]
  • 2016 – Fuzzy Logic, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York City, New York[14]
  • 2016 – Corpus, Levy.Delval, Brussels, Belgium[15]
  • 2015 – Deep Learning, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut[16]
  • 2015 – Scrambler, Halsey Mckay Gallery, East Hampton, New York[17]
  • 2015 – Ciphers, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, California[18]
  • 2013 – Passwords, Duve, Berlin, Germany[19]
  • 2013 – New Paintings, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, California[20]
  • 2012 – Co-Real, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco California[21]

Group exhibitions

Pozanti's work has been featured in group exhibitions at Public Art Fund,[22] Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Kitchen, MCA Santa Barbara, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, and the Sabanci Museum, Istanbul.

References
  1. "Introducing: Hayal Pozanti". Artinfo. 15 November 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  2. Akel, Joseph (10 June 2014). "Signs and Wonders: In the Studio with Hayal Pozanti". The Paris Review. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  3. "Hayal Pozanti: Deep Learning". The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2018 – via Issuu.
  4. "Art Basel Artist of the Day: Hayal Pozanti". PAPER. 6 December 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  5. "Artists: Hayal Pozanti". Tamarind Institute of Lithography. 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2019. Since receiving her MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale University in 2011
  6. Pagel, David (26 November 2013). "Review: Hayal Pozanti's paintings will leave you wanting more". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  7. "An Interview with Turkish-born Artist Hayal Pozanti in her Studio in Queens, New York". Arteviste. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  8. "Freeportism as Style and Ideology?". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  9. "No Decoder Ring Necessary: Hayal Pozanti's 'Ciphers'". KQED. 7 March 2015. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  10. Tiffany, Kaitlyn (26 September 2017). "How one artist's 'encrypted' paintings memorialize the concept of privacy". The Verge. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  11. "Hayal Pozanti | CV | Jessica Silverman Gallery". jessicasilvermangallery.com. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  12. "Murmus of Earth".
  13. "Sergi Detayı - .tr". dirimart.com. 16 November 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  14. "upstairs: Hayal Pozanti - Exhibitions - Rachel Uffner Gallery". www.racheluffnergallery.com. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  15. "LEVY.DELVAL - exhibitions - Hayal Pozanti". www.levydelval.com. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  16. "Article". The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  17. "HAYAL POZANTI - SCRAMBLER". HALSEY MCKAY GALLERY. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  18. "Ciphers | Jessica Silverman Gallery". jessicasilvermangallery.com. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  19. "DUVE Berlin". DUVE Berlin. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  20. "Exhibition by Hayal Pozanti - Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects". www.vielmetter.com. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  21. "Co-Real | Jessica Silverman Gallery". jessicasilvermangallery.com. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  22. "Aiming to Disrupt Ads in New York City, Artworks Instead Blend In". Hyperallergic. 27 February 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
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