Duygu Demir

Duygu Demir (b. Ankara, 1985) is an art historian and curator with a Ph.D. from MIT on articulations of modern painting from Turkey. Before her graduate studies, she worked as a programmer at SALT in Istanbul. In addition to SALT (Istanbul and Ankara), her exhibition projects have been displayed at MIT’s Keller Gallery (Cambridge, MA), Arter Space for Art (Istanbul), and Tate Modern (London). She writes articles and reviews on contemporary art for magazines and online platforms in Turkey and abroad, in addition to her academic research.  

Demir’s research topics include exhibition histories, transnational encounters, and moments of confluence between art and architecture, in addition to contemporary artistic practice, especially of the non-western kind. She has a combined BA degree in Visual Art and Art History from Columbia University in New York.