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Turkish-born American artist Tulu Bayar works with an eclectic range of media including photography, video, sound, sculpture, performance, mixed-media and installation. Her work creates a dialog between traditional and experimental forms by combining elements of the past with a contemporary examination. Bayar’s practice is informed by her experiences and immediate context as an immigrant artist, and her work is deeply influenced by both her native and adopted cultures. Exoticism, otherness, hybridism, homogeneity, pluralism and containment are some of the concepts that she has been exploring throughout her practice. She is interested in engaging with artistic strategies that blur the boundaries between strict categorizations and binary situations. 

Bayar has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the US as well as in Germany, Denmark, UK, France, Colombia, Turkey and China.  Her work is part of public collections including National Museum of Women in the Arts, Belfast Exposed Photography, Samuel Dorsky Museum, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art (Istanbul), and the Textile Museum at George Washington University. Her exhibitions have been covered by international media including NPR, The Irish Times, Afterimage, Photography Quarterly, TRT (National Public Broadcaster of Turkey) and the Bushwick Daily.

 A Fulbright Scholar, she has also received funding from Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Ténot Foundation, artist-in residency grants from Camac Centre d'Art in France and the Center for Photography at Woodstock funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation as well as William Sackett Fellowship through Virginia Center for Creative Arts.

Bayar received her BA degree in Communications and Journalism from Ankara University and her MFA in Electronic Arts from University of Cincinnati. She is currently teaching photography and multimedia courses as a professor at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania.

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