Ahmet Furkan Inan

Ahmet Furkan Inan (b. 1996, Istanbul) is an art historian, writer and editor working across the intersections of contemporary art, historiography and the politics of time. He previously studied Archaeology and History of Art at Koç University (BA, Istanbul, 2020) and History of Art at the University College London (MA, 2021, Distinction), where he focused on the work of Sarkis Zabunyan, a Turkish-Armenian artist living in Paris. Before coming to Oxford, he was the managing editor of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art between 2021-2023.

His research at Oxford, supported by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP and the Clarendon Fund, centers on the art produced and exhibited in Istanbul between 1992-2013. Focusing on the Istanbul Biennial, he is interested in the ways in which artists from beyond the Global North engage with the complicated histories of their geographies in their works, the kinds of historical models that are proposed by them, and whether these artistic practices may inform alternative methodologies for art history.