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Berin Golonu holds the post of Assistant Professor of Art History/Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo. She received a Ph.D. (2017) from the Visual and Cultural Studies Program at the University of Rochester. Her research interests include modern and contemporary art from Turkey, late-Ottoman and Orientalist art and visual culture, art and environmentalism in developing Asian countries, and photographic histories of the Middle East. She is currently working on two main research projects. Her book manuscript titled People’s Gardens: Structuring Public Leisure Space in the late Ottoman Empire traces the establishment of European-style public parks in key Ottoman cities during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her second project explores nativist modernism and cultural difference in late Ottoman and early Turkish Republican art and visual culture. Golonu’s art criticism has been published in Artforum, Afterimage, Aperture, Art in America, Art on Paper, Art Papers, frieze, Modern Painters and X-Tra Art. She has lectured internationally at institutions including California College of the Arts, Cornell University, Duke University, Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes Istanbul (IFEA), Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego, Museums Quartier Wien Vienna, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Stanford University and UCL London. Between 2003-2008 Golonu served as a curator of contemporary art at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco where she worked on more thirty individual and group exhibitions. Between 1999-2003 she was editor-in-chief of Artweek magazine, a regional publication of West Coast art. She holds a master’s degree from the California College of the Arts and a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College.
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