Gulshan karamustafa biography

Turkish artist (born 1946)

Gülsün Karamustafa (born 1946 in Ankara) is a visual artist and filmmaker recognised as "one of Turkey’s most outspoken and celebrated artists."^[1] Using personal and historical narratives, Karamustafa explores socio-political issues in modern Turkey^[2] and addresses themes including sexuality-gender,^[3] exile-ethnicity,^[4] and displacement-migration.^[5] "Hailed as one of Turkey’s most influential contemporary artists,"^[6] her work reflects on the traumatic effects of nation building,^[3] as it responds to the processes of modernization, political turbulence, and civil rights in a period that includes the military coups of 1960, 1971, and 1980.^[6] Karamustafa was one of the laureates of the 2014 Prince Claus Award,^[7&