Canan Senol (;
née
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Canan Şahin; born 1970), also known by the
mononym
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Canan, is a Turkish multidisciplinary visual artist and activist, of
Kurdish
Kurdish may refer to:
*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish languages
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
See also
* Kurd (dis ...
ethnicity.
Her artwork addresses gender stereotypes, sexuality, and politics.
She utilizes a variety of mediums in her practice including craft and digital techniques.
Biography
Canan Şahin was born in 1970 in Turkey. She grew up in a rural part of Turkey. She studied at
Marmara University
Marmara University ( Turkish: ''Marmara Üniversitesi'') is a public university in Istanbul, Turkey.
The university is named after the Sea of Marmara and was founded as a university in 1982. However, it was created in 1883 under the name of ''H ...
, where she received a
BA degree (1992) in business, and later studied painting at the same university.
She was married to a man with the name Şenol, however they divorced in 2010 and as an act of rebellion she continued to use his last name professionally which goes against local laws (sometimes uses her mononym).
Senol's artwork has been shown widely including, "
Global Feminisms
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" (2007) group exhibition at the
Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown H ...
in Brooklyn, New York.
Her work is held in public museum collections, including the
Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...
, the
Pinakothek der Moderne
The Pinakothek der Moderne (, '' Pinakothek of the Modern'') is a modern art museum, situated in central Munich's ''Kunstareal''. Locals sometimes refer to it as the ''Dritte'' ("third") ''Pinakothek'' after the Old and New. It is one of the world' ...
, the
Davis Museum at Wellesley College
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, and
Istanbul Modern
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See also
*
List of Turkish women artists
References
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1970 births
Living people
Marmara University alumni
Turkish Kurdish women
Kurdish women artists
21st-century Turkish women artists
Kurdish women activists
Kurdish women's rights activists