Naz Cuguoglu

Naz Cuguoğlu is a curator and art writer, based in San Francisco and Istanbul. Currently, she works as a Curatorial Fellow at Asian Art Museum. She held positions at KADIST, Wattis Institute, de Young Museum, SFMOMA, among others. She co-founded Collective Çukurcuma, a curatorial collective experimenting with collaborative thinking practices through reading group meetings and international multi-venue exhibitions. She was an artist advisor for Joan Mitchell Foundation and a juror for Sondheim Artscape Prize 2021. Her writings were featured in SFMOMA Open Space, Art Asia Pacific, Hyperallergic, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and elsewhere. She received her MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the
Arts, San Francisco, and holds degrees in Psychology (BA) and Social Psychology (MA) from Koç University, Istanbul. She curated exhibitions and programs internationally at documenta fifteen, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Walters Art Museum, The Wattis Institute, 15th Istanbul Biennial Public Program, Framer Framed, D21 Kunstraum Leipzig, Red Bull Art Around Istanbul, among others. She co-edited four books: Proximities: Folded Readings on the Archival (Haus der Kulturen der Welt: 2022), The Word for World is Forest (The Wattis Institute: 2020), Between Places (Verkstad Konsthall: 2016), After Alexandria, the Flood (Umur: 2015), and presented at institutions including Tate Modern, Fotogalleriet Oslo, Rhode Island School of Design, SALT, Norköpping Art Museum, and The University of California, Berkeley.

Last updated: November 11th, 2022