Buket Savci was born in Istanbul, Turkey. After immigrating to NYC in 2006, she received BFA from Pratt Institute in 2010 and MFA from New York Academy of Art in 2012.

Her work is about the ephemerality of happiness while using inflatables as a metaphor for our short-lived contentment. Observing both the loneliness and need for attention, accompanied with global consumerism frenzy, her art start to question the universal emotional state especially during the pandemic quarantine.

She has been awarded Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason Painting Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center in 2019 and artist residency at Pilotenkueche in Leipzig, Germany in 2018. She has won the People’s Choice Award of Jonathan LeVine Projects’ Delusional Art Competition, and Grand Prize for Dave Bown Projects competition. Her work has been exhibited widely internationally and nationally at venues such as Flowers Gallery, RJD Gallery, the Untitled Space, Field Projects, Kustera Projects, Art Hamptons, Governors Island Art Fair, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Masur Museum of Art, Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Italy, Kamakura Art Center, Tokyo and Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair. She had her first solo show at Olcay Art in Istanbul in 2014, and two-person exhibition at Kunstverein Ludwigsburg in Germany in 2018. Her work is featured in the book ‘The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture’ published by Skira Rizzoli and ‘Istanbul Codex: Contemporary Artists From Turkey’ by Imago Mundi.

Upcoming August 2020 she will have a solo show at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, OH. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

www.buketsavci.com