Bio

Born in 1985, Erdem Taşdelen grew up in Switzerland, Germany and Turkey. He received his bachelor's degree in Visual Arts and Communication Design from Sabanci University in Istanbul in 2007, and his graduate degree in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver in 2010. He continues to live in Vancouver and teaches at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Selected Exhibitions

2012 (forthcoming)
Drag, 221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver (solo)
Title TBA, Sanatorium, Istanbul (with Lyndl Hall)

2011
The Problem of Nothing, Hayaka Arti, Istanbul
Elsewhere, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul
MERKINtile, 221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver

2010
Taken Up, Slightly Revised, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver
10 Years, Kasa Galeri, Istanbul
I’ll Keep Thinking About It, 1612 Gallery, Vancouver

2009
Not That Grad Show, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver

2008
Letter Size, ( ) Space Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver
Like There’s No Tomorrow, Kasa Galeri, Istanbul

Publications & Presentations

2011
Drag, artist talk at 221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver
Indefinitions, featured in Front Magazine, publication by Western Front Society, Vancouver
The Logic of Parerga, catalogue text for Babak Golkar’s solo exhibition Parergon at The Third Line in Dubai, UAE and CSA Space, Vancouver

2010
Iterating, Remaking, Unmaking, artist talk in AHIS 333: Interdisciplinary Forums at Emily Carr University, Vancouver
Intensities, Kasa Galeri 10th Year catalogue, Istanbul

2009
Like There’s No Tomorrow, featured in MsUse Magazine, Tel Aviv
Young Turkish Photographers, work featured at Contemporary Photography Lecture Series at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art
Text and Identity, presentation at graduate student symposium at Emily Carr University, Vancouver
Missed Connection, research paper presented at the Writing Art symposium, Emily Carr University, Vancouver

2008
Like There’s No Tomorrow, interview in Bant Magazine, Istanbul
All of These Days, work featured in annual photography catalogue Shots 104, London, UK