İlknur Demirkoparan is a Turkish-born American artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and digital media. Her practice explores the intersections between political power and the narration of history by tracing her own identity in time and space. While her early work evokes the bizarre and often baffling narratives of identity and otherness, with her current work, she explores the tension between erasure and endurance through the abstract language of kilims which she translates into paintings.

Demirkoparan has performed and exhibited her work at the Berlin Biennial Art Wiki Project (2012), Highways Performance Space and Gallery in Los Angeles (2013 & 2016), FAR Bazaar (2017), Mark Borghi Fine Art, NY (2022). She has an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, and a BA from University of California, Riverside.  Her awards include the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Max H. Gluck Foundation fellowships and the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC) grant. Demirkoparan is the cofounder of the MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture, an artist and research space dedicated to rethinking our contemporary moment since the fall of the Berlin Wall.  She currently lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.

website: https://ilknur.studio/