Beldan Sezen

Beldan Sezen is continuously striving to investigate other forms of reading experiences and as such ventures into cross-disciplines such as installation, video, playwright, and sound.

For the frauen museum wiesbaden she installed her first graphic novel Zakkum as a giant walk though book and showed her editioned book Iron Bunnies Hop in Santurce, Puerto Rico as a video installation, whispering her inner monologue to the in and out fading images .

Her book Snapshots of a Girl was named to the American Library Association's Over the Rainbow List for the best LGBT books for adult readers in 2016.

In 2015 she was awarded with a Global Arts Fund Award by the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Sezen has been a resident at the League Residency at Vytlacil, the P-af residency and Djerassi Resident Artists Program.

Her editioned books are represented by Booklyn. She lives and works in Amsterdam and NYC.

M.A. in Political Sciences

Her work is in private collections as well as institutional collections such as:
Library of Congress
New York Public Library (NYPL)
Stanford University
University of California at Los Angeles, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library (UCLA)
Grinnell College
Wesleyan University
University of Delaware Library
Smith College
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art
University of Colorado at Boulder
School of the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston
University of Connecticut (UCONN)
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - Libri Selecti II