About:

Ebru Esra Güler is an artist from Istanbul, Turkey. She lives and works in Seattle, WA.

Esra's paintings focus on a central female protagonist and explore shame, especially in female sexuality, self-expression, creativity, and transformation. Her imagined characters are often diasporic reflections of her who use their environments as a "theatrical stage" to discuss inhabiting a space and envision freedom within them.

Inspired by myths, tales, films, and classical paintings, Esra often places her figures in environments taken directly from traditional Western paintings. And exposing the layers of process in her work, her canvasses reflect the psychology of the immigrant experience: of having a body that's both politically and historically controlled with an ongoing attempt to position itself in society, to identify itself as "real," to hide and show its accents and, at times, meditate on its longings.

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Education:

MFA in Fiction candidate, Bennington Writing Seminars, VT

NYC Crit Club, Advanced Drawing & Painting, Judy Glantzman

Painting & Drawing, The Florence Academy of Art, Italy

BFA, Cornish College of the Arts

Solo Exhibitions:

2022 No Worries, The Kitchen Gallery, Museum of Museums (MoM), Seattle, WA

Selected Group Shows:

2023 To Die For, Stephen Gilbert’s Studio, Seattle WA

2023 Factory Forever, Museum of Museums (MoM), Seattle

2023 Soft Touch, Museum of Museums (MoM), Seattle, WA

2022 For the Voices of Women, Studio 103, Seattle, WA

2022 Around the Square, Studio 103, Seattle

2022 Spring Members’ Exibition, CoCA 

2022 Toward Resilience, CoCA, Seattle

2021 Home Away From Home, Julian Peña Gallery, Seattle  

2020 20/20 Vision Group Exhibition, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle