Şafak Çetin Özkan

Şafak Çetin Özkan was born in Ankara in 1982 and graduated from the Department of Ceramics, Faculty of Fine Arts, Anadolu University, in 2006. Özkan completed a master’s degree in the Illustration Department of the SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology in New York in 2008 and a Proficiency in Art degree in the Department of Ceramic and Glass Design at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Dokuz Eylül University, in 2018. Özkan worked as a research assistant at Dokuz Eylül University from 2013 to 2017 and at Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University from 2017 to 2019, and has been an assistant professor at Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University since 2019. In 2014, Özkan took part in the New Energy - Transforming Traditions symposium in Hungary. In 2019, the artist’s first solo exhibition, “FoMO-Fear of Missing Out,” opened.