https://denizozuygur.com/artworks daily 1.0 2026-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1727722523676-THYS90725OUK58DU95Y9/DSC_1886_small.jpg Artworks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1730496591119-B5CQPQWRFW78BWDZQ9W0/deniz_ozuygur_TheScreams_grid_small.jpg Artworks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1726735151957-Z897Z9EP03WAJXS2M64M/SummerBlues_Portraitoftheartistandherfamily_Mom_small.jpg Artworks - Le Blues de l'Été, La Vie de Famille - La Mère (Summer Blues, Family Life - The Mother) 2024, cyanotype on archival paper, 25 x 35 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1724603686584-5BIXQLLIQYBN239TMPKZ/image-asset.jpeg Artworks - Bring me the head of Peppa Pig 2024, Digital C-Print, 60 x 40 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1727680446822-YB2AW8S2LF4ABPJW7FFO/image-asset.jpeg Artworks - Heart Boy 2024, monotype, acrylic on archival paper, 50 x 35 cm A collaboration with my daughter Nar (age 5). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1701365132095-Z2KNERTTHGG4APGJDJ1F/HashtagInstamom1_DenizOzuygur.jpg Artworks - Hashtag Magritte 2023, Instagram post https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1731607038518-CDOW2VK73BM8SA3QS5A1/image-asset.jpeg Artworks - The moon was cross with the star, the star didn't notice 2024, glow in the dark fuse beads, 54.5 × 39.5 cm (text), 26 × 23 xm (moon), 23 × 23 cm (star) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1745235689302-SGH4KGQA7PL0XNTFC4B3/3.jpg Artworks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1771306504749-99GSG44NH0TN2233204A/Deniz_Ozuygur_02.jpg Artworks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1771306561983-RGH4SACFFW2LU44IMJAM/DSC_3076_2.jpg Artworks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1771308419951-O12ER4YPY06RRL7Y8XRR/_DSC3062+copy.jpg Artworks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/b27b3d4a-9a2c-4440-a9ec-9588402980df/DSC_2080.jpg Artworks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1771324415753-OGQZLAUHBQAO2U0QU1L2/_DSC2926+copy.jpg Artworks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1771305181631-CKJ1CUK2OYAZ41E8U76L/Deniz_Ozuygur_13.jpg Artworks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1716226660589-NW3KFNV1U27IJRZ7WD0O/image-asset.jpeg Artworks - Gelecek Gelmeyecek 2024, Single channel video, 1 min 15 sec. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1716147412185-N11BBM27M5MEDJCLT6YI/image-asset.jpg Artworks - The Weight of the World 2023, Photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1771307125564-27Z9B1UVPGESCN9937QG/image-asset.jpeg Artworks - Brideday Girl Tiara 2025, fuse beads & fishing line 10 cm (h) × 52 cm (circumference) Brideday Girl Tiara is a fuse-bead crown that reworks the familiar "birthday girl" accessory. The wording replaces "birthday" with "brideday," bringing child and bride together in a single object. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1771321880536-PN0IIGJ9MSS0GG5M7C1D/image-asset.jpeg Artworks - Brideday Present: Arranged Blocks 2025, fuse beads & fishing line 22 × 22 × 22 cm each (3 piece installation) Brideday Present: Arranged Blocks is a set of three oversized fuse-bead ABC blocks, presented as gifts for the figure at the center of the Brideday celebration. Each cube combines baby vocabulary with wedding vocabulary across its faces, bringing child and bride together in the same object. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1771322851119-PWMTZFSP55UAT6LA0CBV/image-asset.jpeg Artworks - Mama’s Gonna Buy You a Diamond Ring.. 2025, fuse beads & fishing line 115 cm (h), circumference 141 cm Mama’s Gonna Buy You a Diamond Ring.. is a fuse-bead baby mobile mounted on a wind-up musical crib mechanism. As it rotates, a circular band spells out a line from the nursery rhyme. Reimagined as a crib object, the lyric becomes a promise of a diamond ring in exchange for a baby’s silence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1771323969466-7NEWT5M6ZFBAIY6NI6A2/image-asset.jpeg Artworks - Babycakes 2025, fuse beads, fishing line & motors variable dimensions (7 piece kinetic installation) Babycakes is a set of seven miniature cakes, each topped with a symbol from the Happy Brideday panels. Three rotate slowly on hidden motors, echoing the movement of the baby mobile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1780487727864-TF93UMGSGX30VCF2INEU/Deniz_Ozuygur_3.jpg Artworks Girls is a series of fuse-bead text panels. Using a craft-coded material to bring together phrases drawn from the territories of girlhood and adult culture, the series examines how language participates in the erosion of boundaries between a female child and an adult woman. Words move freely between a daughter’s bedroom and a strip club, between a childhood game and a pornographic category. Each panel is built from fuse beads in a palette inspired by teen makeup: nude, bubblegum, hot pink, and cherry red. The uneven melting created through ironing gives the beads a velvety texture, while leaving almost scar-like wounds across the surface. Drawing on my experience coming of age in New York City in the 2000s, the series reflects on how permeable the boundaries of protection around girls have always been. The series is ongoing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1780566111903-79UX1TY0QMHQJZNTTGU1/image-asset.jpeg Artworks - Girls (Artist Book) 2026, fuse-bead covers, 11 monotype acrylic prints on handmade Awagami Factory Kozo paper, 22 × 16 × 1.5 cm, Edition of 10 + 2AP Girls is an artist book that examines how “girls,” a word meaning a female child, is recoded through culture. It looks not only at the word itself, but at the visual language attached to girlhood: how it appears in girls’ bedrooms, consumer products, and adult entertainment. The book contains five pairs of found images printed in acrylic paint on handmade Japanese paper. In each spread, a strip-club sign appears on the left, while girls’ bedroom décor appears on the right. The pairings work through repeated language: “Live Girls” beside “you’re like really pretty,” “Baby Dolls” beside “Baby Girl,” “XXX” beside “xoxo.” Printed in the same pink monochrome, the two sources become formally indistinguishable. The book’s small scale recalls a diary. Its fuse-bead cover places it within the register of children’s craft. Girls was shown as part of the project SLEEPOVER at the 2026 border_less Artbook Fair at SALT Galata, Istanbul, where it received the Best Table Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1716147546651-2PDJ6II1PUVRTXZIDV29/IMG_9622.JPG Artworks - Ana-Dolu 2017–2019, clay and tea on canvas, 70 × 100 cm. Ongoing. Ana-Dolu marks my return to art, made while I was pregnant with my second child in 2017. The title is a play on words: Anadolu, Turkish for Anatolia—the region often called the cradle of civilization—and ana dolu, “mother-filled.” The piece sits between my New York artist past and my Turkish wife-and-mother present. The work centers on mantı, a traditional dish that takes hours to make and is eaten in an instant. In Kayseri, mantı is tied to marriage and used to judge a bride-to-be. By recreating it in clay, I render it empty and inedible. Shaping the clay mantı becomes a private protest against the labor traditionally assigned to women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1774730289807-ZNG66MJYLYMJSRC5LBVH/image-asset.jpeg Artworks - Mantıksız Saat (Illogical Timepiece) 2024, clock, clay and tea, 29 cm, edition of 3 + 1 AP The title combines mantı, mantıksız (“illogical”), and tıksız (“not working”). The work continues the metaphor of Ana-Dolu and expands it into a reflection on time and labor. Filled with clay mantı, the clock marks the invisible hours hidden within housework. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1726860927909-SHK8NGN52274JX1SY7NR/DSC_1831_small.jpg Artworks - Çiğ Çiğ, Acı Acı (Raw Raw, Bitter Bitter) 2024, clay, approximately 3 × 2 cm each, variable installation. Ongoing. Building on Ana-Dolu, this series shapes çiğ köfte, another traditional dish, from clay. Like mantı, it speaks to labor-intensive work, but here it also carries the language of power and protest through the clenched fist. Each piece holds the negative space of a fist—an imprint of absence. https://denizozuygur.com/older-artworks daily 0.75 2024-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1504799355829-OIAHBOZSU4Q01Y5HLDDP/THEMOON.jpg Previous Artworks 2010, Digital C-Print, 24” x 16” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1504799942587-BEL61KGV54N7FWI43UEX/OZUYGUR_DENIZ.4.I%27MSORRY.jpg Previous Artworks https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/t/6571c72699f4f63a3c6b6358/1701952913895/ Previous Artworks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1574840161155-OA73TK569HAADQPT0JLR/DenizOzuygur_01_TheKiss.jpg Previous Artworks 2009, foam & silicone, 10 x 4 x 2 ft 2009, Digital C-Print, 24” x 16” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1504799347752-PNI4BRGDDJ23SHF2UN4D/MOMMY.final.jpg Previous Artworks 2010, Epoxy resin, silicone, plastic, acrylic paint 2010, Digital C-Print, 24” x 16” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1701948387017-S99PJN2HZG6TPSE1D0QH/image-asset.jpeg Previous Artworks Site Specific Installation, 2007, acrylic on locker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1701980196749-4LMQ6PR2WJXBMSVKU7UN/birthdaywish.150dpi.10x7.jpg Previous Artworks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1710253636203-XEFK7S0LVMIK90SOZJSD/postcard.front.jpg Previous Artworks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1505077845470-NRPGJP6RKFFGVAG3203O/OzuygurDeniz18.jpg Previous Artworks - Automata 1 2008, Gum bichromate print, 16.5 x 23.4 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1504799930086-HJAPOOUK6ZQF57YB0YET/OZUYGUR_DENIZ.2.POLLY.jpg Previous Artworks - Polly 2008, Rubber, metal, rope, glass eyes & dirt, 14”h x 6”w x 33”d https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1574837664959-CVHOEDWMDMPIR6OIHV9V/solo.jpg Previous Artworks - Solo 2009, video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1716147838375-JY7C8UQ2QAUDZIPD2BD6/handturkeys.jpg Previous Artworks - Hand Turkeys 2010, Metal, silicone cast of artist's hand, glass eyes, feathers, 18 x 36 x 15 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1716147902559-CQP58HK8L98VUFTLPTXX/Point+of+view.png Previous Artworks - Point of view 2010, Paper mache, acrylic, glass eye and false lashes, 100 x 50 x 30 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1504799228621-CQAKMD4T3F8YCYH5W7ED/hornusunicornus.final1.lowres.300dpi.jpg Previous Artworks - Hornus Unicornus 2010, 7” x 6” x 30” , wood, metal, half a pool cue, plaster, paper mache, coal, coffee, tea 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/1758839234396-ILJU8BF7AX0GMPY33O5M/Happy+Brideday_BeralMadra_SergiMetni_exhibitiontext_Page_4.jpg Solo Show: Happy Brideday https://denizozuygur.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-02-26 https://denizozuygur.com/curriculumvitae daily 0.75 2026-06-18 https://denizozuygur.com/bio daily 0.75 2026-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b14f311f318d0ea9cdf111/d0ae897f-e211-41a9-bb25-82ba58c8a151/Profile-pic.jpg About Deniz Ozuygur is a Turkish-American artist who grew up in New York City and is currently based in Istanbul. Her bicultural background informs a practice that examines the tensions between culture and identity, often transforming familiar objects and language through humor and subversion. Before returning to her studio practice, she worked in advertising as a copywriter. Her attention to words, phrases, and slogans continues to shape her artistic practice, where meaning shifts through context and perception. Working across sculpture, text, and installation, she uses domestic and craft materials such as fuse beads to explore motherhood, girlhood, and the invisible labor embedded in everyday life. She received a BFA from New York University. Recent exhibitions include her solo show Happy Brideday at Büyükdere35, Istanbul (2025), with catalogue text by Beral Madra; NADA Curated: As It Unfolds (2025); and the AKBANK 43rd Contemporary Artist Exhibition & Award (2025).