Born in Görele in 1976 and raised in Ankara, Bingöl completed her art education at PhD level in the Fine Arts Faculty at Hacettepe University, Ankara. She also completed programs on music at the Ankara State Conservatory between 1985-91 and on Photography at New School, New York in 2009.She realized twelve solo exhibitions in New York, Ankara, Istanbul, Berlin, and Tate St Ives. She was part of many group exhibitions in Turkey and abroad, including Dialogues: Modern Artists and the Ottoman Past at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the 15th Istanbul Biennial, a good neighbor. As a curator, she has made four exhibitions in Ankara and Istanbul. She participated in various artist residency programs such as Porthmeor Studios – Cornwall, IASPIS – Stockholm, Cité des Arts – Paris, Hunter College – New York, and Gate 27 – Ayvalık.She is a member of the advisory board of the Fine Arts Institute of Hacettepe University, Ankara.Her works are in many public and private collections in the US, Europe, the Middle and Far East, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York, 21C Museum – Kentucky, Salsali Private Museum – Dubai, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art – Krakow, OMM Odunpazarı Modern Museum – Eskişehir, and Baksı Museum – Bayburt.She uses the processes of tracing, copying, and re-forming, and her aim is to construct new sets of configurations by de-structuring familiar representations. Within this culturally and personally charged scope of examination, her works emerge through a constant re-working of images, objects, and forms, converging in a repetitive act where fiction and failure merge. As such, their architectural, sensorial, and conceptual relations to space open up a research field of visual exploration.She currently lives and works in İstanbul.
