"Living in the US-Mexico border region, I experience both cultures first hand in my daily life, while also filtering both cultures through the lens of the Turkish culture that I grew up in.
My art seeks to challenge the common understanding of conventions by altering our perceptions through repurposed objects juxtaposed in innovative ways."
Beliz Iristay
Nationality
Turkish-American living in San Diego, California
&
Guadalupe Valley, Ensenada, Mexico
Education
1990-1997 Le Lycee de Tevfik Fikret, Izmir,Turkey
1998-2003 BFA from Dokuz Eylul University, Faculty of Fine Arts,
Traditional Turkish Ceramic, Tiles and Restoration Department, Izmir, TURKEY
Solo Shows
January 2023 Riverside Museum of Art, Riverside, Los Angeles
Sept.2021 Tracing Acculturations, Lux Art Institute, Encinitas,San Diego
April 2020 San Diego International Airport of Arts ,Make Yourself at Home
March 2020 San Diego Kearny Mesa College Gallery,Ludicrous Tales: A Topsy Turvy Quartet
January 2019 Ma Vie Mavi / Behind the Blue - Athaneum Museum of Art &Library, La Jolla , San Diego
July 2018 I Know You Really Don’t Care
Bread & Salt , Barrio Logan , San Diego
March 2018 OKU/READ El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
May 2015 Ship in The Woods, “Conquest”, San Diego, CA, USA
Dec 2014 Red Dot Miami Art Fair, Sergiott Alliance, Miami, Florida
Nov 2014 San Diego Art Fair, SDAI, San Diego, CA, USA
July 2013 Galeria de Ciudad, CEARTE , Ensenada, Mexico
April2009 Insani-ty, Gallery The Front CasaFamiliar Foundation,SanDiego
Group Shows
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Athenaeum exhiSabition: Marking Time: What Athenaeum Artists Create in Quaranti44
Feb.4 Lost In Translation: A Game of Telephone:Central Library Art Gallery,San Diego Public Library
Sep.2022 San Diego Art Prize exhibition,Bread& Salt Gallery,San Diego
May 2022 Atheaneum Exhibition , Marking Times ,La Jolla
Feb 2020 Ilumination,San Diego Art Institute ,Balboa PArk,San Diego
Sept. 2018 Beyond the Age of Reason, SDAI ,Balboa Park,San Diego
Sept. 2018 MCASD Being Here with YOU/ Estando aqui contigo
April 2018 Annual Auction Group Show , MCSD,San Diego
Nov 2017 SOFA Art Fair, Chicago
August 2017 4th National California Ceramic Biennal , Brea Gallery, La Brea
May 2017 San Diego Botanical Garden Show, Encinitas, San Diego
March 2017 Salacia/Mujeres del Puerto, CEARTE, Mexico
Dec 10 2016 San Diego/Baja California Biennal, SDAI, San Diego
Nov 4 2016 Noysky Projects, The Origin of Species/ Los Angeles
August 2016 1er National Biennal de Ceramica, Cecut, Tijuana-Mexico
March 2016 Mas Attack 9, SDAI, San Diego, CA, USA
Jan 2016 Los Angeles Art Fair, Los Angeles, Sergiott Alliance,
Jan 2016 Red Dot Miami Art Fair
Sergiott Alliance, Florida,Miami
Jan 2016 Artist & Mentorship , Gallery D, San Diego
May 2015 San Diego Art Prize 2015
New Contemporaries VIII , Valencia Gallery ,San Diego
Feb 2015 Mas Attack 8, SDAI, San Diego, CA, USA