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Berin Golonu holds the post of Clinical Assistant Professor of Art History at SUNY Buffalo. She received a Ph.D. (2017) from the Visual and Cultural Studies Program at the University of Rochester. Her dissertation “Modernizing Nature/Naturalizing Modernization: Late Ottoman and Early Turkish Republican Landscape Imagery, 1876-1939” shows how imperatives for national unity, economic development and cultural heritage preservation are reflected in the region’s modern landscape imagery. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled "Structuring Ottoman Public Leisure Space in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries." Golonu’s writings on modern and contemporary art have appeared in publications such as Afterimage, Aperture, Art in America, Art on Paper, Art Papers, frieze, Modern Painters, Third Text and Zing Magazine. She has lectured internationally at institutions including California College of the Arts, Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes Istanbul, Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego, UCL London, Museums Quartier Wien Vienna, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Stanford University, University of Rochester and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Between 2003-2008 Golonu served as a curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco where she worked on more than 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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