Asli Narin

Bio:

Asli Narin is a visual artist and an educator based in Indianapolis, Indiana, originally from Istanbul, Turkey. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design Department at Sabanci University (Istanbul, Turkey) in 2008. Narin pursued her Master of Arts in Image and Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2009.  She teaches visual arts and photography classes at IU Indianapolis Herron School Of Art And Design and Butler University Jordan College Of The Arts.

Artist’s solo exhibitions took place at Kasa Gallery (2014), Oktem Aykut Gallery (2015), Milli Reasurans Art Gallery (2018), and Krank Art Gallery (2021) in Istanbul, Turkey. Narin’s works have been exhibited nationally and internationally in various festivals and biennials, such as Tbilisi Biennial(2012), Athens Photobook Festival (2018), and the 16th Istanbul Biennial (2019). Her work was shortlisted for The Hariban Award-International Collotype Competition in 2016. Narin’s selected group exhibitions are Istanbul Modern Museum Collection-Bahrain, Bahrain National Museum (Bahrain, 2013), Reunion, Sakip Sabanci Museum (Istanbul, Turkey, 2015), Things that Count…Things That Don’t, The Abrazo Interno Gallery (New York, USA, 2015), Blow-Up: I Saw The Lemon, SALT Galata (Istanbul, Turkey, 2017), When You Dance, You Make Me Happy, Gallerie Delle Prigioni, (Treviso, Italy, 2019) and New Photography 2022, Aurora PhotoCenter at Gallery 924 (Indianapolis, USA). Her works have been acquired by the Luciano Benetton Collection, Istanbul Museum Of Modern Art, Soho House, and other private collectors. She was recently awarded the DeHaan Artist of Distinction Award by the Arts Council of Indianapolis was the artist in residence at the Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester, NY) in the summer of 2023.

View Asli's full website at aslinarin.com.

Teaching Philosophy:

As a visual artist and educator, I have been teaching how to make photo books and photozines since 2013. The production of photobooks became easier thanks to image-making and printing being more accessible to everyone. It is a democratic medium that can be easily created and circulated with self-publishing. As a result, photobooks are being more widely published than ever by photographers and artists working with photography. 

During my residency at Faculty Crossing, I will discuss how image-making and book-making can help students express themselves creatively, budget-friendly, and efficiently without having professional knowledge of photography and design. I will also share how creating photobooks teaches conceptual thinking, visual literacy, curation, and design skills. Photobook is also an excellent medium for interdisciplinary understanding since images, text, drawings, and other 2D mediums can be present at the same time coherently. It is a medium that can be easily implemented in art or non-art major courses to express ideas or research with visual narrative.