Sinan Tuncay is a New York-based Turkish artist who works in photography and video. His projects often grapple with issues of patriarchy, gender roles, and his own queer identity. Made...
Sinan Tuncay is a New York-based Turkish artist who works in photography and video. His projects often grapple with issues of patriarchy, gender roles, and his own queer identity. Made in his apartment during the pandemic lockdown, My Beautiful Quarantine is a collage of still and moving images created using paper dolls. The artist’s whip-smart humor is demonstrated by narrating his quarantine with audio from Turkish singer and queer icon Zeki Muren’s TV interview about his daily routine. By projecting himself onto another and the life-size into miniature, Tuncay’s fascinating tableaus examine performative aspects of masculinity as defined by lifestyle.
Tuncay received his BA from Sabanci University, Istanbul in Visual Communication Design (2010) and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York in Photography, Video and Related Media (2013). His work has been exhibited internationally and acquired in private and public institutions such as the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Musée de l’Elysée and Odunpazarı Museum of Modern Art. In 2016, he was awarded a fellowship by the New York Foundation for the Arts and has since won several awards for his music video projects with Turkish recording artists. He has had solo exhibits in New York and Istanbul, recently including Reserved for the Men I’ve Never Became at C.A.M. Gallery, Istanbul (2019).