Ahmet ARSLAN
Ahmet Arslan
Born: Turkiye 1992
Lives in Long Beach, CA
MFA in Painting/Drawing from Sakarya University, Turkey
BA in Art Education from Selcuk University, Turkey.
Ahmet’s work examines the intersection of indigenous cultural landscapes and state sponsored discourses of assimilation, militarism and racial supremacy. They engage in ongoing conversations regarding erasure of minority histories; economic pressure on the agrarian working class born from globalization; and the malleable but resistant heritage and traditions of indigenous cultural landscapes.