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Can Yıldırım (b. 1995, Istanbul) is an artist whose practice engages with the paradoxes and implications of living in a hyper-hypertextualized world on the verge of epileptic seizure. Within this oversaturated and entropic landscape, his works emerge from undercurrents of continuity— narratives, objects, and systems anchored in the present or in history—as well as from fleeting moments of transcendence; chance encounters, accidents, moments of awe and epiphany, and everyday gestures that expose the infrastructures and desires shaping contemporary life. Often beginning from language, text, space or incidental fragments, his works act as temporal reservoirs of meaning and potential sites of re-enchantment, momentarily resisting—or amplifying—the density of the present by assuming the forms of installation, sculpture, objects, text, video, and drawing. He received his BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore. He lives and works in Istanbul. 


Education
2017 – Maryland Institute College of Art, Interdisciplinary Sculpture, BFA

Solo and Duo Shows
2025 - süperanxiety, with Lalin Mercan, Kiralık Depo, İstanbul
2021 - Don’t worry, we’re side by side / There are no giants, nor their shoulders, İMÇ5533, İstanbul

Group Shows
2025 - Survival Kit for Dummies, March Art Project, Istanbul
2024 - 9. Çanakkale Biennial, Neo-Ordinary, MAHAL, Çanakkale
2024 - Akbank 42nd Contemporary Artists Prize Exhibition, Future-Proof: Evidence, Rehearsal, Resistance, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul
2024 - COPYWRITER, Zeynep Yılmaz, İMÇ5533, Istanbul
2023 - i'll see it when i believe it, Büyükada, Istanbul
2023 - Capriola Art Week, Lecce, Italy
2022 – spare keys, Freya-alt, İstanbul
2022 – The Yard, Contemporary Istanbul 17th edition, İstanbul
2022 – manual of a heart, ambidexter, İstanbul
2022 – IST-BLN, HOTO Gallery, Berlin
2022 – From Istanbul with Love, SPAM Collective, İstanbul

reviews / links
2025 – Review by Matt Hanson on süperendişe (superanxiety), Art Asia Pacific
2025 – Süperendişe, Contemporary Art Library
2021 – Review by Fatma Belkıs on Don’t worry, we’re side by side, Unlimited Rag
2021 – Review by Matt Hanson, On Conept and Labor, Daily Sabah

Artist Residencies
2022 – IST-BLN, HOTO Gallery, Berlin
2021 – Garp Sessions, Babakale, Çanakkale

Professional Experience
2018 - 2019 - Learning Programs Assistant, ARTER, İstanbul
2019 - 2021 - Exhibitions Specialist, ARTER, İstanbul


coskuncanyildirim@gmail.com