Q: Who is Sinem Dişli?

Sinem Dişli is a contemporary artist born in Urfa, Turkey, based in Istanbul and New York. She works with photography, sculpture, installation, and mixed media. She holds an MFA from Marmara University Photography Department and a BFA in Sculpture from Dokuz Eylül University.

Q: What themes does Sinem Dişli explore in her work?

Sinem Dişli explores themes of nature, archaeology, earth, and the concept of time. Her main subjects include Göbeklitepe, Yarımburgaz Cave, soil pigments, heirloom seeds, and natural landscapes.

Q: What are Sinem Dişli's notable exhibitions?

Her notable exhibitions include Deep Time: Faces of Matter (Martch Art Project, 2023), Hollows and Mounds: A Take on Göbeklitepe (Ara Güler Museum & Leica Gallery Istanbul, 2019), Grounded (Venice Biennale, 2025), Heirloom Seed Library (Postane, Istanbul), and Currents (Empire Project Gallery, 2015).

Q: Where has Sinem Dişli's work been exhibited?

Her work has been exhibited at Venice Biennale, Rencontres d'Arles, Havana Biennial, featured in The New York Times, and shown at Martch Art Project, Ara Güler Museum, Leica Gallery Istanbul, Empire Project Gallery, and numerous international platforms.

Q: How can I contact Sinem Dişli?

You can contact Sinem Dişli through the contact page on her website (sinemdisli.com/contact) or send an email to sinemodisli@gmail.com.

“Everything exists to end up in a photograph.” – Susan Sontag, 2025

“Grounded” Türkiye Pavilion, 2025, 19th Venice Architecture Biennale

A Foreign Eye, 2022

A Pillar of Smoke, 2018

A-R-A-L-I-K, 2015

about

Anamnesis series, 2010

Anamnesis, 2013

Anamnesis, Exhibition Catalog, x-ist Gallery, 2013

Anamnesis, x-plore Vol.1, 2010

Anxiety series, 2004

Anxiety, 2004

Aralık, Artist Book, Collective Publication, 2016

Artist Residency Program Exhibition, SVA Studios, 2008

Basalt Factory series, Urfa, 2019

Basalts, Limestones and Obsidians of Göbekli Tepe series, 2019

Bazda Caves, Urfa, 2019

Becoming: Cure as Care, 2018

Black Marble, 2023

Burgeon series, 2015

Cereyan, Exhibition Catalog, The Empire Project, 2015

contact

Contact Print series, 2023

Contact Zone, 2026

Critical Shifts, 2024

Crystal Clear, 2020

Crystal Clear, Exhibition Catalog, Pera Müzesi, 2020

Crystal Tartrate, 2026

Currents, 2015

Curtains series, Urfa, 2019

Deep Time, 2023

Dem Bu Dem, 2025

Dissemblance: Babel, 2012-2015

Distant Points of Interest [within close range], 2018

Distant Points of Interest series, 2018 – 2024

Echo, Urfa, 2018-2019

exhibitions

Fener, Urfa, 2018-2019

Fields on Fire, 2015

First Impression series, 2011

First Impression, 2018

First Impression, Exhibition Catalog, x-ist Gallery, 2011

First Impression, Second Glance: Women Photographers from Turkey, 2013

From Mesopotamia to Çukurova: The Skin of the Soil, 2025

Future and Contemporaneity, 2022

Genç Soluk, Geniş Açı Photography Journal, 2004

Grounded, 19ᵗʰ Venice Architecture Biennale Catalog, Yem Publishing House, 2025

group exhibitions

Gülle Games series, Urfa, 2019

Hand & Seed series, 2024

Hand Holding Stone series, 2023

Hands series, 2022

Hollows & Mounds, 2019

Hollows and Mounds: A Take on Göbeklitepe, Artist Book, Ara Güler Museum Publishing House, 2019

homepage

Imprint, 2011

Inside the Blackout, 2022 – 2025

Intersection IV, Anamnesis, 2014

İntiba, Artist Book, Self-published, 2013

Invisible Longing, 2013-2015

Les Glaneurs et Les Glaneuses, 2016

Les Glaneurs et Les Glaneuses, Exhibition Catalog, Versus Art Project, 2016

Limestone and Basalt Quarries series, Urfa, 2019

Magic Telescope, La Palma, Canary Islands, 2021

Manufacturing of the Familiar, 2015

Mapping Fig Trees Series, 2024

Minerals series, 2022

Moire series, 2014

Moiré’s of Transformation, 2013

Moisture series, 2017

Moisture, 2017

Monomyth, 2018

Naked Eye series, 2015

news & press

Obsidian Reflection series, Urfa, 2019

On The Verge, 2015

Orbs series, Urfa, 2019

Pigment Separations, 2024

PRINTED ’18, 2018

publications

Resident Soils, 2024

Resistance, 2007

Revisit, 2012-2015

Rooted Fragments, 2024

Rutubet, Artist Book, Self-published, 2017

Sand in a Whirlwind, 2025

Sandstorm – And Then There Was Dust, 2020

Sandstorm – And Then There was Dust, 2020

Sandstorm–And Then There was Dust, 2021

Scale, 2020

Seven Seventeen, 2025

Seven Wandering Stars, 2015

Shadows, Urfa, 2019

Sky, Urfa, 2019

Sogmatar Series, 2015

Soil Pigment Separations: Revealing the Layers of Earth, 2023

solo exhibitions

Sound is the Silence of the Image, 2022

studio

Tempo Incognito: On Flows, Rhythm, and Movement, 2021

Temporality of Minerals, 2021

Temporality: A 395-Year-Old Plane Tree, 2023

The Animal Side, 2018

The Animal Side, Exhibition Catalog, Mixer, 2018

The Crystallizing Landscape, 2019-2025

The Light of the Mind, Cold and Planetary, 2024

The Lightness of Silk, The Weight of Stone, 2025

The Matter of the Image, The Crystallizing Landscape, 2025

The Whisper of Things, 2025

This Place, Yarımburgaz Cave, 2021

Through Earth and Ether, 2024

Time Capsule, 2023

Tools, 2023

Trans Form Fault, Currents, 2016

Tree, Urfa, 2013

Triangle: A Dialogue, 2025

Tunnels series, Urfa, 2019

Untitled series, 2023

Urfa, 2019

Urfa, Göbekli Tepe Series, 2019

Volcano I, 2019

Watershed, 2018

When Dust Outshines the Stars, 2025

When Trees Speak, 2024

works

Yarımburgaz Cave Series, 2021

You Are What You Eat, 2019

Young Talents in Turkish Photography v.02, 2004

Young Talents in Turkish Photography, 2004