Untitled Painting

Buket Savci was born in Istanbul, Turkey. she received her BFA from Pratt Institute in 2010 and MFA from NY Academy of Art in 2012. In her work she tries to capture the fleeing moments of pure joy and happiness. She creates paintings addressing the ephemerality of happiness while using objects like balloons as a metaphor for our short lived contentment. Her work has been exhibited internationally and nationally at venues such as Flowers Gallery, RJD Gallery, Kustera Projects, Dacia Gallery, Art Hamptons, Sotheby’s, Governors Island Art Fair in New York, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, WI, Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, LA, Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Palermo, Italy, Kamakura Art Center, Tokyo, Japan and Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair in Istanbul, Turkey. She had her first solo show Playground at Olcay Art in Istanbul in 2014, and two person exhibition Zwei Positionen at Kunstverein in Ludwigsburg Museum, Germany in 2018. She has won the Grand Prize for Dave Bown Projects’ semiannual competition in 2016 juried by Helga Christoffersen (Assistant Curator of New Museum, NY), and recently Jonathan LeVine Projects’ 2nd Delusional Art Competition People’s Choice Award. Some of the publications she is featured are; The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture published by Skira Rizzoli, Istanbul Codex: Contemporary Artists From Turkey by Imago Mundi, Who Is Afraid of Feminism exhibition catalog juried by Catherine Morris, Poets and Artists Magazine, and International Painting Annual 7 by Manifest Gallery Publications. In addition to her studio practice she has taught printmaking as postgraduate teaching assistant at Long Island University and NY Academy of Art. She worked with Jeff Koons, Liu Bolin and Zaria Forman as their painting assistants. Recently she has attended a 3 month artist residency at Pilotenkueche International Art Program in Leipzig, Germany.