Belgin Yücelen
While enhancing our imaginations and consciousness, Belgin Yücelen’s art remains true to the desire to create meaning and beauty in subtle simplicity. With her installations, sculptures, films and prints, she asks the questions of Who we are? and Where we are going? So together we can achieve basic human wisdom. Rather than a direct representation, she creates a fictional world beyond the existing to conjure unrealized possibilities to challenge imaginations. Traces of her previous years in Turkey appear in her artwork placing it at the fascinating edge where East and West meet and ancient and modern coincide.
She has been
recognized by organizations such as the Colorado Creative Industries, Boulder Country Arts Alliance, Moon and Stars Grant, Clark
Hulings Fund, Hemera Foundation, and National Sculpture Society. She founded House of Serein in 2019 as a creative space for
community use and studios for artists in Boulder, CO. Artist Residency at La Macina di San Cresci, Italy in 2021.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2023 Waiting Rooms, Customs House Museum, Clarksville, TN, March-April
2022 Shifts Over Time, BMoCA @Frasier Meadows Summer 2022, May-October
Praise of Uncertainty and short film, Borrowed Stories, ArtGym, May-June
2021 Contemplation, Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO, Nov-December
2020 Among Flowers in Bloom (art installation, dance and music) at the House of Serein, CO, March-April
Clothes from the Past, Customs House Museum, Clarksville, TN, November 2019-January 2020
2019 From Ancient to Now, BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, May – June
2018 Clothes from the Past, Helena Davis Gallery, Artspace, Richmond, VA, July – August
2017 Sole Purpose: The Shoe, Arts/Harmony Hall, Fort Washington, MD, October – December
7th Solo Art Series Art Competition, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery, October – November and Artsy.net
Installation: For Children who will Never be Able to Fly a Kite, fundraiser for the famine in South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen
and Nigeria, June, 2017
Clothes from the Past: Installation, Lakeside Legacy Foundation (LLF), Dole Mansion, IL, March
Ethereal Shoes: Installation, LLF, Dole Mansion, IL, March
Floating Children: Installation in collaboration with photojournalist Brian Rutter at the LLF, IL, March
Words: Installation and Audio Show, Lakeside Legacy Foundation, Dole Mansion, IL, March
2016 Journey of a Thousand Years, Memorial Hall Galleries, Chadron, NE, February – March
2015 Journey of a Thousand Years, CACE Gallery of Fine Art, Fort Morgan, CO, October – November
2014 A Journey in Bronze, Smith Klein Gallery, Boulder, CO, March-April
2012 Solo Show, Consortium816 Gallery, Denver, CO, August
2004 Denver Performance Arts Complex, Denver, CO
Swallow Hill Art Gallery, Denver, CO
2002 Quiet Memories of Life at UC Denver, CO
screen print
17.8 × 17.8 cm
ed.2/21
2020
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screen print
17.8 × 17.8 cm
ed.2/21
2020
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screen print
17.8 × 17.8 cm
ed.2/21
2020
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screen print
17.8 × 17.8 cm
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2020
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screen print
17.8 × 17.8 cm
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2020
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screen print
17.8 × 17.8 cm
ed.2/21
2020
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screen print
17.8 × 17.8 cm
ed.3/21
2020
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screen print
17.8 × 17.8 cm
ed.2/21
2020
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Monotip
monotype print
17.8 × 17.8 cm
2020
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screen print
17.8 × 17.8 cm
ed.2/21
2020
This work includes a certificate of authenticity.
screen print
17.8 × 17.8 cm
ed.2/21
2020
This work includes a certificate of authenticity.
Sculpture
bronze and etched mirror
35.6 × 15.2 × 7.6 cm
2014
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Sculpture
bronze
10.2 × 25.4 × 5.1 cm
ed. 11
2014
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