ARTIST BIO

Dilge Dilsiz is a Turkish artist who currently resides in Cincinnati, OH. She works primarily in photography, design, mixed-media installation, and new media. As a woman living in and between cultures, she analyzes hierarchical structures around the world. Her work explores the power dynamics in society and interrogates the adversities one might face due to coming from a marginalized background. She values interdisciplinary research and collaboration with other artists.

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Dilsiz received her Bachelor of Arts degree at Lafayette College in Easton, PA where she studied Psychology, Studio Art, and Architectural Studies. During her time in Pennsylvania, she worked with female inmates from Northampton County Prison to help their recovery from substance abuse by using art therapy methods. She completed her MFA degree at Stony Brook University, in Stony Brook, NY, where she worked as a Lecturer and Instructor of Record. Here, her studies focused on reasoning human behavior through true life stories. She currently works as an Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Miami University in Oxford, OH.

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In 2022, Dilge was awarded the Dorothy G. Pieper Award. From 2016 to 2019, she has been awarded CaPA Scholars Program Art Funding. In 2018, she received the Rothkopf Scholars Award to travel to France. She has exhibited across the United States and Europe at galleries, art spaces, and public venues. Her current work uses a hauntological approach to depict the liminality of diasporic individuals, in the manner of a ghost, to accentuate the fading of their social and cultural past. With this technique, she creates visuals of human geography that metaphorically reflect on diaspora.