When I look at paper I enter a space in which the landscape of a page is at once a sculptural and a narrative place. My physical marks create palimpsests and the page becomes a dialectally charged surface embedding the narrative.
Contact
For a list of currently available works please email beldansezen@me.com
phone New York: (+1) 9295307828
phone Amsterdam: +31(0)648790448
Representation: Booklyn
Beldan Sezen is an artist and writer. Her work includes graphic novels, artists’ books, drawings, essays, and installations. She is Turkish by ethnicity, German by birth, and a resident of both the Netherlands and the U.S. – all of which allows her to observe society as an insider and outsider simultaneously. As a curator of artists books, she is part of the Booklyn team. She is the creative director and co-creator of Cypher, a digital comics magazine that brings audiences into the radical lives and dangerous work of human rights defenders around the world.
She lives and works in Amsterdam and New York.
Institutional Collectors
Library of Congress + New York Public Library (NYPL) + University of Delaware Library + Stanford University + University of California at Los Angeles, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library (UCLA) + Grinnell College + Wesleyan University + Smith College, Mortimer Rare Book Room + University of Colorado at Boulder + Bainbridge Museum of Art + School of the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, Tufts University + University of Connecticut (UCONN) + Bayerische Staatsbibliothek + St. Olaf College + College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University + Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts, Wits Art Museum (WAM), The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa + University of California at Irvine (UCI) + Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel + University of Wisconsin–Madison + Amherst College + Columbia University Libraries + The Pennsylvania State University (PENN STATE) + University of Southern California (USC) + Dartmouth College + Carnegie Mellon + University of Iowa + University of Miami + KB nationale bibliotheek + Harvards Fine Art Library + Deutsche Nationalbibliothek + The Getty