Education
Diploma, Cartoon School, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
M.A. Political Science, Gerhard-Mercator-Universität - GH, Duisburg, Germany
Institutional Collectors
Library of Congress (To Separate The Body From The Machine, Iron Bunnies Hop, Wetrocities, War is a four letter word)
New York Public Library (NYPL) (To Separate The Body From The Machine)
Stanford University (To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance, Iron Bunnies Hop)
University of California at Los Angeles, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library (UCLA) (To Separate The Body From The Machine)
Grinnell College (To Separate The Body From The Machine, Iron Bunnies Hop)
Wesleyan University (Iron Bunnies Hop, To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance)
University of Delaware Library (To Separate The Body From The Machine, To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance, Iron Bunnies Hop, Home of the Brave, War is a four letter word, Wetrocities, I Kill you in Dreams)
Smith College (Iron Bunnies Hop)
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance, Fear City)
University of Colorado at Boulder (Iron Bunnies Hop)
University of Connecticut (UCONN) (To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance, Home of the Brave, Wetrocities)
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (To Separate The Body From The Machine, Fear City, Home of the Brave, Solitary Confinement, War is a four letter word, Kitchen Table Diaries, Wetrocities, Memory Patches, To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance, Iron Bunnies Hop, I Kill you in Dreams)
St. Olaf College (Iron Bunnies Hop)
Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts, Wits Art Museum (WAM), The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance, Iron Bunnies Hop)
Penn State (To Separate The Body From The Machine)
The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University (Wetrocities)
Herzog August Bibliothek (Wetrocities, To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance, To Separate The Body From The Machine, Home of the Brave, #Spielraum, I Kill you in Dreams)
Columbia University Libraries (Fear City)
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Special Collections (Memory Patches)
University of California Irvine (Memory Patches, Wetrocities, Home of the Brave)
Amherst College (Home of the Brave)
Carnegie Mellon (Iron Bunnies Hop)
Swarthmore (Iron Bunnies Hop)
Dartmouth College (Memory Patches)
University of Southern California USC (Home of the Brave)
School of the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, Tufts University (To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance, Home of the Brave, I Kill you in Dreams)
University of Iowa (Home of the Brave)
University of Miami (Wetrocities)
KB nationale bibliotheek (To Separate The Body From The Machine, To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance, Iron Bunnies Hop)
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (War is a four letter word)
University of Puget Sound (Wetrocities)
University of Southern California (USC) (Home of the Brave)
Getty Research Institute (I Kill You in Dreams, Iron Bunnies Hop)
Aga Khan Documentation Center M.I.T. (I Kill you in Dreams)
Related Fairs
Manhattan Fine Press Book Fair 2017, Los Angeles Art Book Fair 2017 (LAABF 2017), Codex International Book Art Fair 2017, Editions / Artists Book Fair 2017 (EABF 2017), Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS) 2018, NYC, Codex International Book Art Fair 2019/ Artists Book Fair 2019 (EABF 2019), Codex International Book Art Fair 2022
Publication
2023 I Kill You in Dreams (sole author)
2023 Seeds To Khadi, by Aaron Sinift (contributing artist)
2022 #Spielraum (sole author)
2022 “Kitchen Table Diaries” (sole author)
2021 “Brooklyn Bridge” (contributing artist)
2020 “Solitary Confinement” (sole author)
2020 “Manipur” in: The Caravan (sole author)
2020 “War is a four letter word” editioned book (sole author)
2019 “Home of the Brave” editioned book (sole author)
2019 “Memory Patches” editioned book (sole author)
2018 "Wetrocities" editioned book (sole author)
2018 “Verhalen van vrouwen”, comics book (contributing artist)
2017 “Billy” Djerassi Resident Artist Program (sole author)
2017 “Where are you, my Love” Words Without Bordes (contributing artist)
2017 “Iron Bunnies Hop” editioned book (sole author)
2016 “To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance” editioned book (sole author)
2016 “I saw an act of kindness” picture book (sole author)
2015 “Operation Çalagan Courthouse”, Il Becco Giallo (sole author)
2015 “Snapshots of a Girl” Arsenal Pulp Press (sole author)
2015 “To Separate The Body From The Machine” editioned book (sole author)
2014 “Sulla Mia Pelle” Becco Giallo Editore (sole author)
2013 “HOṀŒ - Soul Crime New York” Round Robin Editrice (anthology)
2013 “Gezi Park” Becco Giallo Editore (sole author)
2013 “Writers in the Crowd” Treehouse Press (anthology)
2012 “circumstances” KRASS #2 kritische assoziationen (contributing artist)
2011 “Zakkum - a graphic murder mystery” Treehouse Press (sole author)
2011 The Vicious Red Relic, Love by Anna Joy Springer, Jaded Ibis Press, (contributing artist)
2010 To Kill A Mocking Bird, unfold, issue 3, (contributing artist)
2010 “Fear City” Qunst.mag, issue, 'movement', (contributing artist)
2009 “A girl called Halt” BookBox, Uitgeverij Lucha Libre (sole author)
2009 “My Own Sex in the City” Qunst.mag, issue, 'experiments in living', (contributing artist)
2008 “Fear City” The Girly Comic, issue 17, (contributing artist)
2007 “New York series” Chroma: A Queer Literary Journal (spring/summer issue), (contributing artist)
2007 “It' s a miss egg's world” the flak magazine, weekly cartoon
2007 “Bully Me Not” Girls Change the World!, may, 24
2005 “sister/outsider” riot angel, august number, (contributing artist)
2005 prime time, poets against war, (contributing artist)
2005 “thin line” Surviving in the hour of darkness: Health/Healing/ Herstory, a candid look at the Wellness of Women of Colour and Indigenous Women, edit. by S. Harding, Calgary Press
2001 “Oguz Atak” Tuntentinte, (contributing artist)
2001 “Oguz Atak and ayip” Bint-el-nas, (contributing artist)
2000 “ethnic ph.d.” Zami krant #14, (contributing artist)
1999 Talking Home - Heimat aus unserer eigenen Feder, Women of Color in Deutschland, edit. by B. Sezen/ O. Popoola
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, German
2020 Bronx Community College, NYC “Solitary Confinement- an artists book installation”
2015 Morris Library, University of Delaware, Newark “To Separate The Body From The Machine”
2014 Galerie Hooffzaak, Amsterdam “Tender Gender”
2012 De Balie, Amsterdam “Mijn Amsterdam”
2011 Dansmakers Amsterdam Hal 1, Amsterdam “Werkschau”
2009 frauen museum wiesbaden, Wiesbaden “Zakkum”
2006 Kollektieve Identitäten & andere Kleinigkeiten, gallery TekTek, Berlin
2005 miss egg & ander rood werk, gallery Reibach, Amsterdam
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 University of Delaware “The Artists’ Books in our Times”
2022 University of Puget Sound “Changing the Conversation: Artists’ Books, Zines and Broadsides from the Collins Memorial Library Collection”
2021 Harvard Fine Arts “Booklyn Bridge”
2019 IPCNY, “Published by the artist - Brooklyn edition”
2018 frauenmuseum wiesbaden, Wiesbaden “Pride being L”
2018 Booklyn, NYC “workspace”
2018 Gowanus Open Studios
2017 Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2017 Diagonal, Santurce/Puerto Rico “Censura - Desconexión”
2016 Comicfestival Hamburg “Queer Comics & Zines”
2015 SmackMellon, NYC “RESPOND”
2015 Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam “Hangen moet je toch”
2014 Salon Arti et Amicitiae “Vakantie Werk”
2013 Salon Arti et Amicitiae “Grenzeloos”
2013 Traveling exposition Turkartoon “#Gezi Park”
2013 Arti et Amicitiae “Nieuwe Leden Tentoonstelling”
2012 The MIXER, Istanbul “Non-Aligned”
2012 Zichtbare lijnen 2012, stripdagen Haarlem
2011 AWA gallery, Amsterdam “come come dear friend”
2010 8th International Women's Art Festival, Aleppo/ Syria
2010 Beirut, Lebanon “Let's Comics”
2010 Galerij Schijnheilig, Amsterdam “Queeristan”
2009 Artellerie, Berlin, “Comic Jam”
2009 Galerie für Kunst & Migration, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin “Zwischenraum”
2009 Art House Tacheles Berlin “Personally Political - Contemporary Sensation”
2008 Luminoso, Galerie 92 - de Liwwadde, Leeuwarden
2008 G-Fest Artsfestival, McKenzie Pavilion, London
2008 Chiellerie Gallery, Amsterdam “Ladyfest Amsterdam”
2008 Feuerwache, Cologne “Weibsbild”
2007 Drill Hall gallery, London “G-Fest Artsfestival”
2006 Oberbaumbrücke, Berlin “Open air gallery”
2006 Atelier Roy Jongeling, Amsterdam “Open ateliers Jordaan”
2006 hYpe gallery, Post CS, Amsterdam
2005 Gallery LAGOS, Cologne “Uns geht es gut und Danke für den Fisch”
2004 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin “Querschnitt 17”
2004 SUPERMARKET KUNST, Amsterdam
Film Festivals
2013 Cinedans Amsterdam “InDifference”
2011 24es Instants Vidéo 2011 (M)éditorial/ Rencontres internationales, Marseille “from the diaries of two breast”
2009 Rich Mix, London, G-Fest Artsfestival “from the diaries of two breast”
2009 Queer Women of Color Film Festival, San Francisco“from the diaries of two breast”
2008 Roze Film Dagen, Amsterdam“from the diaries of two breast”
2005 Ketelhuis, Amsterdam “erfenis van slavernij” (Sezen/ Pang-Atjok)
2005 Wereldmuseum Rotterdam “erfenis van slavernij” (Sezen/ Pang-Atjok)
2004 World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam “EmotioneelStadsplan”
2003 Roode Loper Festival, Amsterdam “Monuments of forgotten history”(Sezen/ Pang-Atjok)
2001 Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam “shots”
Grants, Awards & Scholarships
2023 Het Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, awarded with project grant
2022 Herzog August Bibliothek Artists' Book Prize Fellow
2020 Goethe Institut NY, awarded with an exhibition grant
2018 Amsterdamse Fonds voor de Kunst, awarded with a development grant
2018 Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, awarded with the Tijl Fonds grant
2015 Global Arts Fund Award, Astraea Foundation, NYC
2014 Ruth Katzman Scholarship
2011 Treehouse Press Prize for graphic short stories
2010 Turkish Embassy, Travel Grant
2009 Dutch Embassy, Travel Grant
2008 Prins Bernard Cultuur Fonds, Creation Grant
2007 Amsterdamse Fonds voor de Kunst, Research/ Creation Grant
Professional Affiliations (Associations, Alumni & Collectives)
Gowanus Studio Space (since 2018)
Booklyn Inc., Brooklyn NY (since 2015)
Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside CA (2015)
The League Residency at VYT, Sparkill, NY (2014)
Arti Et Amicitae, Amsterdam (since 2012)
Collaborations
2021 Booklyn Bridge, edit. by Marshall Weber, NY
2016 AFTERMATH with Titta Cosetta Raccagni, Lucca, Italy.
2011 COME COME DEAR FRIEND with Jane Porter, Amsterdam.
Professional Positions
since 2021 Curator at Booklyn, NYC
since 2020 Co-founder and creative director of Cypher-zine for Front Line Defenders
2021, 2020 Juror for the Lambda Literary Annual Award
2019 Associate Curator at Booklyn, NYC
2019 Participant at Dialoges of a future communication - Entanglement #4 by Jenny Brockmann/Niama Sandy, NYC
2019 Artist talk at Bronx Community College, NYC
2019 Author Talk at New York Public Library (NYPL)
2019 Panelist at Queer Comics Con NYC (2019)
2018 Juror for apexart, NYC
2018 Panelist at Comics Con NYC (2018)
2017 Artist talk at Bronx Community College, NYC
2016 Artist talk at NYU Tisch and Columbia University, NYC
2010 Drawing collaboration, NGO/ artists Networking during "Let's Comics", Beirut
2010 Internship at Ellen Schippers, exposition Frauensehnsucht, Loods 6, Amsterdam
2008 Mentoring program, 2008 - Mentor Charlie Citron, Kunstenaars&CO, Amsterdam.
2008 Curator, the influence of gender politics in contemporary art, Chiellerie Gallery, Amsterdam
2007 Guest Lecture, Being a Cartoon Artist, Southbank International School, London
1999 Lecture, Harvey Milk Institute, San Francisco2019