Gulsum Keskinoglu

Gulsum Keskinoglu is an artist based in Williamsburg who works across sculpture, painting, ceramics, and jewelry, consistently exploring the female body as a subject. She runs Awita New York, a studio and publishing platform that hosts open-call exhibitions and an art magazine.

Gulsum Keskinoglu's work keeps returning to the female body as a site of meaning: sculpted, painted, rendered in ceramics and jewelry, examined in detail. Trained in sculpture at Mugla Faculty of Fine Arts in Bodrum and shaped further in the studio of Tevfik Turen Karagozoglu, she moved between Istanbul, Paris, Athens, Kyiv, and New York before putting down roots in Williamsburg. The studio she built there, Awita New York, operates as both exhibition space and publishing platform: running open-call group shows, solo giveaways for emerging artists, and an art magazine that runs interviews and spotlights. The through-line is less about any single medium than a consistent question: who gets a platform, and whose form gets to be seen?