Merve Ertufan  
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Education
2008-2010 Masters on Art in the Public Realms, Konstfack, Stockholm/Sweden
2003-2007 Undergraduate at Visual Arts, Sabanci University, Istanbul/Turkey
   
Exhibitions
Aug 2011 I Am Not A Poet, Totalkunst Gallery, Edinburgh/UK
Jan-Mar 2011 Liljevalchs Vårsalongen, Stockholm/Sweden
Sept 2010 Repeaters, Verkstad, Norrköping /Sweden
July 2010 Jet-lagged, Open Studio, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo /Japan
May 2010 Degree Exhibition, Konstfack University College of Arts, Design and Crafts, Stockholm /Sweden
April 2010 4th International Biennale for Artists Books, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria /Egypt
Feb-Mar 2010 10 years at Kasa, Book Presentation, Kasa Galeri, Istanbul /TR
Nov 2009 Me & You in Vita Havet, Konstfack, Stockholm /Sweden
Sept 2009 летний курс, Konstfack, Stockholm /Sweden
Sept 2009 14th Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and Mediterranean, Skopje /Macedonia
May 2009 Video Art Screening, St. Petersburg /Russia
March 2009 Skopje0909, Kasa Galeri, Istanbul /TR
Feb 2009 Video Art Screening, Galleri Maskinen, Umea /Sweden
April 2008 Cheap Like Wow!, UAMO Festival 2008, Munich /Germany
May 2007 In Between, Sabanci University (SU) FASSART Gallery,
  Visual Arts Program Graduation Exhibition, Istanbul /TR
Feb 2007 OpenStudio, SU FASSG018 - Mid-year Open Studio Exhibition, Istanbul /TR
Feb-March 2007 A Journey to Self Expression: Within Figure, Limkokwing Uni. Selangor/Malasia
Jul-Aug 05 and 06 Naked Portraits I and II, SU FASSART Gallery, Istanbul /TR
Feb 05 and 06 From Drawing to Animation II and III, SU FASSART Gallery, Istanbul /TR
Sept 2005 15th Istanbul Art Fair - Young Talents and Their Masters II,
  Painting and Drawing Exhibition, TÜYAP, Istanbul /TR
   
Artist-in-Residence
Jun- July 2010 (As a Res Artis Award winner) Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo /Japan
April- Aug 2008 Art Center Istanbul, Borusan, Istanbul /TR
   
Publications
Mar 2010 10 years at Kasa, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul/TR. A book compiling new works by 139 artists
  that exhibited in Kasa Gallery. Participated with ‘Fortum’. ISBN: 978-605-4348-01-5
   
Awards and Scholarships
2009 Beata Brummers Foundation, Project grant for Me & You, Konstfack, Stockholm/SW
2009 Res Artis Award, Fully funded two-months residency at Youkobo Art Space
2006 Sakip Sabanci Scholarship, %50 of tuition fee - Sabanci University, Istanbul/TR
2005-2006, Certificate of High Honor, Sabanci University, Istanbul/TR
Spring 2004
Spring 2005, Certificate of Honor, Sabanci University, Istanbul/TR
Fall 2003
   
Work Experience
Currently Internship at Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm/SW
June 2008 Designer in ‘Kriz’ - Galata Design Week, Istanbul/TR
Nov 2007 Supervisor - 2. Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul/TR
July-Nov 2007 Coordinator of Exhibition and Artists’ Assistants,
  10. International Istanbul Biennial, IFCA Istanbul/TR
Spring 2007 Exhibition Asistant - Open City Exhibition - Yoko Ono, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul/TR
Winter 2005 Speaker in Gallery Talks - Picasso in Istanbul, Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul/TR