Buket Savci

Buket Savci was born in Istanbul, Turkey. she received her BFA from Pratt Institute in 2010 and MFA from NY Academy of Art in 2012.

In her work she tries to capture the fleeing moments of pure joy and happiness. She creates paintings addressing the ephemerality of happiness while using objects like balloons as a metaphor for our short lived contentment.

Her work has been exhibited internationally and nationally at venues such as Flowers Gallery, RJD Gallery, Kustera Projects, Dacia Gallery, Art Hamptons, Sotheby’s, Governors Island Art Fair in New York, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, WI, Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, LA, Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Palermo, Italy, Kamakura Art Center, Tokyo, Japan and Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair in Istanbul, Turkey. She had her first solo show Playground at Olcay Art in Istanbul in 2014, and two person exhibition Zwei Positionen at Kunstverein in Ludwigsburg Museum, Germany in 2018.

She has won the Grand Prize for Dave Bown Projects’ semiannual competition in 2016 juried by Helga Christoffersen (Assistant Curator of New Museum, NY), and recently Jonathan LeVine Projects’ 2nd Delusional Art Competition People’s Choice Award. Some of the publications she is featured are; The Figure...

2012 New York Academy of Art, New York, NY - MFA - Painting
2010 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY - BFA - Painting

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

Zwei Positionen, two person exhibition, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg in Ludwigsburg Museum, Ludwigsburg, Germany, 2018

Playground, Solo Exhibition, Olcay Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, November 2014 (with Catalogue)

2019

Upcoming March, 4 Person Exhibition, curated by Jeff Evans, Artworks Trenton, Trenton, NJ

2018

2nd ANJE, juried by Frank Bernarducci, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau,WI (with Catalog)

SouthWest Brooklyn Biennial, curated by Anna Kustera, Kustera Projects, Brooklyn, NY

The Real Men, curated by Brooke Shields and David Kratz, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Miami, FL (during Art Basel Miami)

Governors Island Art Fair 2018, Governors Island, New York, NY (with Catalog)

Figurative Realism, online exclusive exhibition Artsy, curated by Dirk Dzimirsky, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL

12th Annual Summer Exhibition, curated by Nicole Berry, Matthew Flowers, Amber Kelly, Alice Gray Stites, and Richard Vine, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY

Speech Bubble, curated by Martin Holz and Viviane Tabach , Alte Handelsschule, Leipzig, Germany

Join the Dots - Connect the Distances, exhibition by Imago Mundi - Luciano Benetton Collection, Salone deli Incanti, Trieste,...