Banu Çolak

Banu Colak (1978, Ankara/Turkey) received a PhD in Fine Arts from Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. She then moved to London and completed a short program in Art Theory at Central Saint Martin’s, London, UK. Banu Colak is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts in the College of Arts and Creative Enterprises at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi. She has been included in many group exhibitions. Her work is in many private and public collections in Europe and the Middle East.

Selected exhibitions include;

Iterations as Habitats / Fleff 2015, curated by Dale Hudson of New York University Abu Dhabi with Claudia Costa Pederson of Wichita State University, Ithaca Collage, Ithaca, New York. (2015). Sikka Art Fair, Art Dubai 2015, Bastakiya, Dubai, UAE (2015). ISEA “Location” 20th International Symposium on Electronic Art,Dubai, UAE (2014). "The Flat Planet" The Invisible Line, Curated by Tara Aghdashloo, London, UK (2014). Sikka Art Fair, Art Dubai, Bastakiya, Dubai, UAE (2014). "Dog of War", Mori + Stein Gallery, London, UK (2013). “Cabinet Exhibition” Islington Art Factory, London, UK (2013). “Dialogue”, Rathausplatz, Nurnberg, DE (2013). “What is time got to do with it”, Core @ Nolias Gallery, London, UK (2013). “Octavia View”, Octavia Hill’s House, Cambridge, UK (2012). “Open Cube”, CueB Gallery, London, UK (2012). “What is it Like”, Project, Reading, Berks, UK (2012).“Orient und Okzident”, EherenHalledes Rahthaus, Nurnberg (2012). “Contemporary Istanbul‘ 08“, Istanbul, TR (2012).