Erdem Taşdelen

Erdem Taşdelen is a Turkish-Canadian artist who currently lives and works in Tkaronto/Toronto. His projects often draw from unique historical figures, events, and texts in order to build semi-fictional narratives that explore frameworks of political entanglement through a range of media, including installations, video, sound, and printed matter. Taşdelen’s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions internationally, and reviewed in publications including ArtforumFlash ArtArtAsiaPacificCanadian Art and C Magazine. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Delfina Foundation, London; Rupert, Vilnius; and KulturKontakt Austria, Vienna. In 2019, he was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award.

Erdem Taşdelen
Erdem Tasdelen, The Characters: Act I, 2019 (mixed-media audio installation, approx. 60 mins). Courtesy of the artist and The Bows. Photo by Katy Whitt.

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