Ahu Antmen is a professor of modern and contemporary art at Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her research is based on issues of modernity, identity and gender in modern and contemporary Turkish art. Besides her teaching, she has worked as an art critic for Turkish daily newspapers Cumhuriyet and Radikal, co-founded the Turkish Art Annual, and served as arts editor at Yapı Kredi Publishing.

Her publications include 20. Yüzyıl Batı Sanatında Akımlar [Trends in 20th Century Western Art] (Istanbul: Sel Publishing, 2008); Kimlikli Bedenler: Sanat, Kimlik, Cinsiyet [Bodies with Identities: Art, Identity, Gender] (Istanbul: Sel Publishing, 2014); Memory of Time: The Life and Art of Ali Teoman Germaner (Istanbul: İş Bankası Culture Publications, 2007); İçerdeki Yabancı: Hale Tenger [Stranger Within: Hale Tenger] (Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Publishing, 2007); and the edited volume Sanat/Cinsiyet: Sanat Tarihi ve Feminist Eleştiri [Art/Gender: Art History and Feminist Critique] (İstanbul: İletişim Publishing, 2008). She has contributed to various international publications, including Mapping Impressionist Painting in a Global Context; Globalising Impressionism: Reception, Translation, and Transnationalism; Curatorial Challenges: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Curating; Unleashed: Contemporary Art from Turkey; and Beyond Imagined Uniqueness: Nationalisms in Contemporary Perspective.

Her curatorial work includes Nur Koçak: Our Blissful Souveniers at Salt (2019); Bare, Naked, Nude: A Story of Modernity in Turkish Painting at the Pera Museum (2015); Second Eye: Women Photographers from Turkey at Sismanoglio Megaro (2013), and Turkish Painting from the Tanzimat Era to the Republic (2012), as well as Joseph Beuys and His Students at the Sabancı Museum (2009).