Okay Özkan (born in 1987, Ankara) completed his undergraduate degree on Visual Arts at Marmara University and his MFA in Art and Design at Yıldız Teknik University. The artist, who has studied for a semester at the Royal Academy of Art at The Hague, lives and works in Istanbul. In his work that links a variety of disciplines including sculpture, video, installation and performance with gender studies, memory and pedagogy, he reverses the signs and codes of the ruling class/government. Özkan has participated in numerous group exhibitions including Still Life With A Curtain, Galerist (2018); Temporality – Differences and Beyond, Marmara University (2017); World and Things, Cermodern (2016); Sessions I, Mixer (2016); Possible, Kargart (2014); Skinny Deeping in the Void, Noordwall, Den Haag (2014) and has received awards at the Istanbul Rotary Art Competition (2018), Contemporary Art Project Competition (2016) and Borders - Orbits 17, Siemens Art (2015).