ARZU OZKAL is a Turkish born, San Diego, CA based artist, designer, and researcher whose work focus on design’s role in looking for forms of creative and critical outcomes through participation and collaboration.
Ozkal is a founding member of Home Affairs, an interdisciplinary art collective focusing on creative projects about a range of issues impacting women's lives. Since 2011, they have been working together with women from Turkey, Europe, and USA to design platforms of social exchange. Ozkal co-edited with Dr. Claudia Pederson, Gün: Women's Networks a DIY book project investigating informal networks and their extension into digital media with the aim of gaining understanding of the sociocultural conditions impacting women's participation in contemporary culture (2013).
Ozkal's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in Athens, Istanbul, Barcelona, Ghent, Amsterdam, Berlin, Los Angeles, New York, and beyond. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Photoworks Magazine UK, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism and the forth-coming book, Collaboration in Design Education by Bloomsbury Academic.
Ozkal was born in Ankara, Turkey. She received her MFA from the Department of Visual Studies at University at Buffalo (SUNY) and BFA in Graphic Design from Bilkent University. She is currently Associate Professor of Graphic Design at San Diego State University. Ozkal's latest limited edition publication with Tricia Treacy, Situated Between can be purchased here.
Studio: https://www.contrary.info/
Situated Between: https://www.situatedbetween.com/
