Baris Gokturk

Baris Gokturk (Barış Göktürk) is an artist and educator raised in Turkey and Puerto Rico. He holds an MFA in Sculpture from Columbia University and an MFA in Painting from Hunter College. He has previously taught at MassArt, The New School, Columbia University, and Hunter College.

Gokturk’s work explores themes of regeneration through fragmented figures and abstract spaces that represent spiritual unrest and relentless search for new possibilities.

Gokturk has been an ApexArt fellow in Seoul, a NXTHVN fellow in New Haven, and an artist-in-residence at ISCP, LMCC, Fountainhead, and Yaddo, as well as a participant in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and SOMA Mexico, among others.

He has shown his work internationally in the US, Germany, Spain, France, Korea, Turkey, and Puerto Rico. Recent museum exhibitions include The New Museum, Jewish Museum, and Hudson River Museum in New York; Pera Museum in Istanbul; and Frost Museum in Miami. He created public works for Columbia University’s Butler Library and the Public Art Fund in New York.

Gokturk is a founding member of JUNTE, a land, art, and culture project in Puerto Rico incubated by the New Museum in New York.