Alize Zorlutuna is a queer interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator whose work explores relationships to land, culture and the more-than-human, while thinking through, history, ancestral wisdom and healing. Having moved between Tkarón:to and Anatolia (present-day Turkey) both physically and culturally throughout their life has informed Alize’s practice—making them attentive to spaces of encounter. Alize enlists poetics and a sensitivity to materials in works that span video, installation, printed matter, performance and sculpture. The body and its sensorial capacities are central to their work.
Alize has presented work in galleries and artist-run centres across Turtle Island, including: Plug In ICA, InterAccess, Gallery TPW, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Mercer union Centre For Contemporary Art, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Art Gallery of Burlington, XPACE, Audain Art Museum, Access Gallery, as well as internationally at The New School: Parsons (NY), Mind Art core (Chicago) and Club Cultural Matienzo (Argentina). Alize has been a sessional instructor in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University since 2015
Double Headed Axe, Humber River, and stars
Brings together symbols from historic kilims and the Humber River, wool, cotton, latex, glass Nazar beads, wood.
20.5 x 31 inches, with strings: 20.5 x 108 inches
Carrying Seas (Separate Artworks)
Forms drawn from historic Anatolian pottery,
Ebru (hand marbled paper), hand cut
Tree of Life, 2023
Based on a carpet from Ada Melas (1930) wool, cotton, latex
14 x 63″
(Un)known Shore
Incorporates symbols from a central Anatolian kilim (1900) in the artists home wool, cotton, latex, glass Nazar beads, wood.
32 x 21 inches; with strings: 32 x 76 inches