NEWS

5/22/10 Relief Valve/Subap at the New Agrarian Center in Oberlin, OH opens on May 28. Curated by Oberlin College professors Arzu Ozkal and Nanette Yannuzzi-Macias, the exhibition features Turkish artists (and me) exploring issues related to the environment.

3/9/10 Work from Toplu was accepted into the Midwest Photography Project at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago. They will have 11 prints in the near future.

1/29/10 Visiting Artist lecture at West Virginia University has been rescheduled to Wed, Mar 3.

1/24/10 Solo exhibition at SCC's Works on Paper / Zone VI Photography Gallery in Dayton Ohio, running from Mar 17 - Apr 15, 2010.

1/24/10 Outskirts, a solo exhibition at Rebecca Ibel's Miranova Gallery in Columbus Ohio, will run from Feb 1 to Mar 26, with an artist's reception on Feb 19, from 5pm-9pm. More info. Check out a review in the Columbus Dispatch.

11/16/09 Rehearse, Rewind, Repeat at Ohio University Art Gallery, my alma mater, opening on Jan 12, running through Feb 18.

11/11/09 Work to be featured in Picturing Home at Emory Visual Art Gallery in Atlanta Dec 3, 2009 - Jan 29, 2010.

11/5/09 Happy to announce that I am represented by Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio. The gallery will feature my work at the Pulse Contemporary Art Fair in Miami in December. Link to Rebecca Ibel at Pulse.

Work at SPACES Annual Benfit and Auction on Nov 7.

8/25/09 Minor Invasions work will be included in Between History and Memory, a group exhibition at Herron School of Art in Indianapolis from Oct 7 - Nov 14. I'll be giving an artist talk at 5:30pm on Oct 7 before the reception at 6:30pm.

Minor Invasions work will also be exhibited in Disturbing Reality at the Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati, OH Mar 19 - Jun 6, 2010.

7/18/09 Added a gallery of my recent work. Toplu: Landscapes of New Turkish Suburbia. It is a temporary gallery, as I will be returning to Turkey to continue the work later this month. The work will be exhibited at Cleveland State University Art Gallery with an opening reception on Aug 28 and run through Sept.

2/16/09 Been awhile since I've updated... I've relocated and am settling into the new teaching gig. More about that can be found on CSU Photo blog. I recently set up a great studio in Rocky River. Currently, I'm working on an exhibition of Turkish landscapes (sample image) for the CSU Art Gallery. I'm also working with my northeastern Ohio colleagues, Irina Koukhanova, Peter Happle Christian and Joy Christiansen Erb on Image and Object, an exhibition at Asterisk Gallery to feature our work alongside our students' work. I'm also doing a workshop at Bowling Green State University on photographing miniature tablauex on April 1- 2. I will prioritize gallery updates and, perhaps a website overhaul in the coming months... Stay tuned...

5/1/08 I found out today that I got tenure - the day after I turned in my letter of resignation (see previous news item). But I'm always looking for a reason to celebrate.

4/30/08 I am pleased to announce that I have accepted a position at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio. I'm planning to move with my family over the summer. I'll miss the wonderful faculty and students I've had the good fortune of knowing at Marshall University, but I'm extremely excited about the opportunity at CSU.

I'm looking foward to a great panel for Fiction, In Fact: Directions in Contemporary Photography at the 2008 Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) in New Orleans in September. Presenters include Marni Shindelman, Michael Sherwin, Rocky Horton, and Jay Gould.

1/24/08 Call for participation! My session, Fiction, In Fact: Directions in Contemporary Photography, was accepted to the 2008 Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) in New Orleans in September. I'm looking for photographic artists who are working in innovative ways to present. Click here for details.

12/3/07 Work in Buswater, group exhibition at1520 Kanawha Blvd in Charleston. More info.

10/7/07 Work featured in a statewide West Virginia art and design faculty exhibition at Charleston City Hall. The exhibition was organized as part of SECAC's annual conference. A reception will be held Sat, Oct 20 from 6pm - 8:30pm.

8/9/07 Work to be published in Robert Hirsch's forthcoming photography textbook Light and Lens, published by Focal Press (Elsevier) in October.

5/1/07 I got a promotion. I will return to classes in the fall as an Associate Professor. Thanks to everyone who supported me.

4/24/07 I will have seven pieces in Storage Space - a group exhibition exploring buried histories, real and imagined - at SPACES in Cleveland, OH. The show is up from June 22 through August 3.

3/8/07 I will have three photographs in Exhibition 280 at the Huntington Museum of Art. The exhibition opens in April and runs through July. Best of all, I'll be sharing the space with some of my students who were also selected to exhibit.

3/3/07 Video work will be featured in Kill Your Timid Notion, an international festival of experimental music, film and visual art in Dundee, Scotland. The event is produced by Arika and will take place April 12 - 15 at Dundee Contemporary Arts. I'm in Film Programme 1: In & Out.