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Education:
MFA in Writing/Fiction, Bennington Writing Seminars, VT
NYC Crit Club, Advanced Drawing & Painting, Judy Glantzman
Drawing & Painting Program, The Florence Academy of Art, Italy
BFA in Theater (Acting & Playwriting), Cornish College of the Arts
Solo Exhibitions:
2026 Antipode Gallery, Seattle WA (forthcoming)
2022 No Worries, The Kitchen Gallery, Museum of Museums (MoM), Seattle, WA
Selected Group Shows:
2024 I Want Your Skull, The Trophy Room LA, CA
2023 To Die For, Stephen Gilbert’s Studio, Seattle WA
2023 Factory Forever, Museum of Museums (MoM), Seattle
2023 Soft Touch, Museum of Museums (MoM), Seattle, WA
2022 For the Voices of Women, Studio 103, Seattle, WA
2022 Around the Square, Studio 103, Seattle
2022 Spring Exhibition, CoCA
2022 Toward Resilience, CoCA, Seattle
2021 Home Away From Home, Julian Peña Gallery, Seattle
About
Esra Güler is an artist from Istanbul, Turkey.
She lives and works in Seattle, WA.
Esra's paintings focus on the female self-expression, creativity, and transformations. Her canvasses feature improvised characters who grapple with grief, freedom, and question the restrictions brought on by one’s psyche, lineage and culture.
Highly inspired by performing arts and literature, Esra's work merges painting with theater and the intimacy of writing. As she searches for her characters through dynamic brushwork and charcoal marks, they reveal aspects of diasporic grief, meditations on power dynamics and selfhood.