Firat Erdim

Whether with chisel, cast shadow, sprayed ink, or the tow line of a kite, Fırat Erdim’s practice investigates the intersections of projection, place, and materiality to question axioms of architectural imagination. His work has been exhibited at the Spartanburg Art Museum (South Carolina), Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Copenhagen, Denmark), Elmhurst Art Museum (Illinois), The Windor (Madrid, Spain), and Maquis Projects (İzmir, Turkey), among others. This work has been supported by residencies at Sculpture Space (New York), Heima (Seyðisfjörður, Iceland), I-Park (Connecticut), Babayan Culture House (Cappadocia, Turkey), Vermont Studio Center, and the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest (Kentucky). Awards include a 2016 Santo Foundation Award for Individual Artists, and the 2014 Founders Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Iowa State University.