New York Studio School, University of Chicago (MA), Mimar Sinan University (Ph.D)
During 1991-2001 she lived and worked in New York.
Duben’s works are paintings, book arts, video and multimedia installations which address identity, migration and cultural issues.
RECENT SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017 ONLAR/THEY, Fabrica, Brighton, UK solo
ONLAR/THEY, Brighton Festival
Pi Artworks, London solo
2016 Stay With Me, Belvedere Museum - 21er Haus, Vienna
2015 ONLAR/THEY, Salt Galata, Istanbul solo
2014 Poetry and Exile, British Museum
3rd EIAB – European International Book Art Biennale, Moscow
2013 13th. İstanbul Biennial
Fifth International Artists’ Book Exhibition, King St. Stephen Museum, Hungary
2012 2012, Gallery Zilberman, Istanbul, [cat.] solo
2011 Dream and Reality, Istanbul Modern [cat.]
The (UN)Framed Photograph, Center for Book Arts, New York [cat.]
2010 A Dream... But Not Yours, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
2009 İPEK DUBEN: A selection 1994-2009, Akbank Sanat, İstanbul, [cat.] solo
New Works New Horizons, Istanbul Modern [cat.]
Istanbul Next Wave, Akademie der Künst, Berlin [cat.]
Threads: Interweaving Textu[r]al Meanings, Center for Book Arts, New York [cat
2007 Modern and Beyond:1950-2000, Santralistanbul, Istanbul [cat.]
2006 Substance and Light:Ten Sculptors Use Cameras Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Museum, Utica, New York [cat.]
Fourth International Artist’s Book Exhibition, King St. Stephen Museum, Hungary [cat.]
2004 Bibliotheca Alexandrina’s First International Biennial for Hand Printed Artists’ Books Egypt [cat.]
Call Me Istanbul, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2003 Time Lines Reading the City of Signs, The Architecture Centre, Bristol, UK; Istanbul
Bilgi University; University of Nottingham, UK; London College of Communication
2001 The Fifth Sharjah International Arts Biennial, U.A.E. [cat.]
Stephen Gang Gallery, New York, Solo
VIDEO
2017 ONLAR/THEY, Fabrica, Brighton, UK
ONLAR/THEY, Brighton Festival
2015 ONLAR/THEY, Salt Galata, Istanbul
2010 THINKING GARBAGE “Videfesta” 10-International Festival of Media Arts, Goethe-Institute, Ankara
WHAT IS A TURK? A Dream... But Not Yours, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
2009 WHAT IS A TURK? A selection 1994-2009, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul
2008 THINKING GARBAGE International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
2007 FAREWELL MY HOMELAND
“Homeland Borders and Boundaries”, Video Festival, Mexicalı, Mexico
Baja California’s Culture Institute, Arts Latina Video Festival
Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
“Team Players for Plausible Art Worlds”, Event Series, Ica, Philadelphia
2006 THINKING GARBAGE İpek Duben - Nancy Atakan
“Coding: Decoding: Exhibition”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
“(In) Place of Fear”, Imaf 8th International Multimedia Art Festival, Serbia and Montenegro
River’s Edge Film Festival, Kentucky
“Too Much Freedom”, L.A. Freewaves, 10th New Media Art Festival, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
COLLECTIONS
Istanbul Modern; The British Museum; Bibliotheca Alexandrina-Egypt; Museum voor Volkenkunde Rotterdam; Wien Museum (as part of Karamustafa Export Import Project); King St. Stephen Museum, Deak Collection, Székesfehérar, Hungary; Center for Book Arts-New York; Moscow Artist’s Book Archive; Koc and Zorlu Foundations; SALT e-books; (ONLAR/THEY and İpek Duben Essay's and Interviews:1978-2010). Private collections in USA, Turkey, Japan, France, The UK.
PUBLICATIONS
SALT e-books İpek Duben Essay's and Interviews:1978-2010; http://saltonline.org/tr/1432, 2016;
Seksenlerde Türkiye’de Çağdaş Sanat: Yeni Açılımlar [Contemporary Turkish Art in the Eighties: New Directions], ed. I. Duben and E. Yıldız, Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2008
Türk Resmi ve Eleştirisi [Turkish Painting and Its Criticism: 1880-1950], Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2007
“Introduction”, Çağdaş Düşünce ve Sanat [Contemporary Thought and the Arts], ed I. Duben and D. Şengel, Istanbul AIAP/PSD, 1991 (2. ed 1993