:: 12th Annual Chicago Art Open, River East Art Center, Chicago, IL

Showcasing over 350 local artists, The Chicago Art Open is a unique opportunity to appreciate the diverse talent in Chicago's visual artists. Come raise a glass in honor of CAC's 35th Anniversary, bring your family and friends for the public opening & learn about collecting from a panel of advisors. For more information on tickets and programming, visit www.chicagoartistscoalition.org.

My work "Layered Reflection" is exhibited among the 350 artists' works.

:: Digital Incarnate Student Response Show, IAM Project Room, Columbia College Chicago, IL

After the Digital Incarnate exhibition, Feb. 8 – April 2nd at The Arcade Gallery, which featured by Luftwerk, OpenEnded Group, and Troika Ranch, as well as the Synchronous Objects interactive web kiosk created by William Forsythe, Maria Palazzi, and Norah Zuniga Shaw, a Student Response exhibition in The Project Rm will showcase student work that grafts movement and technology in an installation, projection, or time-based performance/experience.

Mihrab, a 3 channel video projection and performance installation created by me and Eden N. Unluata was selected to be exhibited.

:: VerveSalon, Music and Visual Arts with a Twist, Joie de Vine, Chicago, IL

Come share our passion for great music, art, cocktails and good times. DJ Tepmix will be spinning and a selection of my artwork will be featured.

Joie de Vine is at 1744 W. Balmoral Ave. (Balmoral/Ravenswood)

:: Work Studio Opening Show, Work Studio Gallery, Chicago, IL

Work Studio is a new studio/gallery/event space that is available for artists to rent on a short term basis. This show takes place to celebrate the launch of the gallery.

:: Spring smART Show at Flat Iron Artists’ Association (FIAA) Gallery 214, Flat Iron Arts Building in Wicker Park, Chicago IL

Group show in the FIAA Gallery 214 as part of the spring smART Show, March 5th-7th 2010 at the Flat Iron Arts Building in Wicker Park located at 1579 N Milwaukee Ave (at North/Damen/Milwaukee Ave). In addition to being part of the smART Show, your work will be exhibited through the month of March during FIAA gallery hours, Saturday & Sunday 1:00-5:00pm.

:: ARTExchange, CAA Conference, Hyatt Regency Chicago

Exhibiting a selection of artworks and videos on my table at the ARTExchange during College Art Association Conference

ARTexchange is an annual event that provides a forum for artists working in all media to share their work with peers and with other conference attendees. In the past, participants have mentioned this event as one of the most inspiring and rewarding aspects of the conference. ARTexchange, to be held Friday, February 12 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, in Riverside Center East, Purple Level, East Tower of the Hyatt, is free and open to the public; a cash bar is available.

:: Ne dedin? (What did you say?) - solo installation on foreignness

Ne dedin? (What did you say?) is an interactive installation that explores foreignness and the hardship or the fun of constantly deciphering meaning in a foreign land through sound. Even though there are tools for people living in a foreign country to understand their surrounding, even if you spend years in that country, you can never fully grasp your environment like a native person would. Ne dedin? (What did you say?) creates such a place for the American or non-Turkish audience through conversations and "tools".

:: At Close Distance

I will be showing a mixed media piece on paper and perform a story that accompanies this image in this graduate student show at C33 Gallery curated by Laura Elayne Miller. Details coming soon.

:: In Possibility - a transformable art installation on the nature of choice
created in collaboration by Kelli Cousins, Hale Ekinci, Laura Elayne Miller

In Possibility explores how the choices we make invariably have consequences, both for ourselves and for everyone who crosses our path. During each moment of our lives we enact choice. Whether grand or small, every decision determines the actions we take from then on. Through this web of cause-and-effect, action-and-reaction, our lives and experiences become linked in a way that is often invisible to the naked eye. In Possibility seeks to make these connections visible.

The installation is a transformable environment in which each participant's movements and actions change the space. Thus, each pathway created, each alteration of the space by the individual, creates the cumulative representation of the act of choice. Ultimately, as participants come and go through the installation, the resulting environment will be representative of the collective experience.

:: ReFab -- an art happening

Mess Hall hosts a group show of recycling objects by turning them into art objects. Click here for more details.

:: Version Fest 2009, NFO XPO

I had a solo booth at NFO XPO. Check out the event and festival details here.