Inci Eviner (b. 1956, Ankara) graduated from the Painting Department of Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts and completed her PhD at the same university. She represented Turkey at the 58th Venice Biennale, Turkish Pavilion in 2019. She held a comprehensive retrospective show in 2016 at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art. She participated in the 2024 edition of Frieze Sculpture curated by Fatoş Üstek located at The Regent's Park. Eviner’s solo exhibitions include Neural Crest of an Island, Dirimart Pera, İstanbul (2024); Mécaniques de l’esprit, Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, Amiens (2024); Beyond Home, İMALAT-HANE, Bursa (2023); Houris and Travelers, Dirimart Dolapdere, İstanbul (2022); Co-Action Device: A Study, Hasköy, Istanbul (2022); Looping on Thin Ice, Pearl Lam Galleries, Shanghai (2016); Runaway Girls, Drawing Center, New York (2015); Broken Manifestos Espace Chatelain, Brussels (2013); Broken Manifestos, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (2011); Harem, Art in the Auditorium , Whitechapel Gallery, London (2009) and Nouveau Citoyen, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine (2009). Group exhibitions and biennials include; Further Away, 6th Mardin Biennial, Mardin (2024); Colonial Memory, Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid (2024); Inspired by the East, British Museum, London (2020); Hand Drawn, Action Packed, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Center, London (2018); Beautiful World, Where Are You?, 10th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (2018); Imagined Borders, 12th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2018); Dystopia: Marketting the 200th Anniversay of Karl Marx’s Birth, Municipal Museum of Jena, Jena (2018) and Mom, Am I Barbarian?, 13th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (2013). She received the Sharjah Biennial 13 Prize in 2017. The artist has been invited to a number of artist residencies including Rauschenberg Foundation, Florida (2017); SAM Art Projects (2010) and Leube, Salzburg (2005). Eviner’s works have been included in international collections such as the Deutsche Bank Collection, Centre Pompidou Paris, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim New York and TBA21 Vienna. She lives and works in Istanbul.
