ALİ MİHARBİ

Ali Miharbi, was born in 1976 in Istanbul where he currently lives and works. He graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering as well as Art Theory and Practice. He earned his MFA in Kinetic Imaging at Virgina Commonwealth University. His work can take many forms from phographic, graphic or sculptural pieces to dynamic systems driven by live or stored data. Using his background in engineering, Miharbi takes systems within the fields of economy, management, psychology, sociology, computer science and linguistics; where top-down and bottom-up approaches are used in conjunction to create fruitful feedback loops or conceptual short-circuits. Miharbi was a resident artist at the Saha Studio in 2022 and Delfina Foundation London in 2017. His solo exhibitions include "Degrees of Freedom", Pilot Gallery, Istanbul (2022), "Pneuma", Pilot Gallery, Istanbul (2017),  "Stroke", Schauraum, MQ Vienna (2014),  "On the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit", Pilot Gallery, Istanbul (2013) and "Seance",Interstate Projects, New York (2011).

Recent group exhibitons include: "Reveries Truhts" Casa Botter, Istanbul (2023), "Metamorphoses from Casual Relations to Incognitodexial Signs", Sanatorium, Istanbul (2022), "Tempo Incognito: On Flows, Rhythm and Movement", Depo, Istanbul (2021), "Intergalactic", Anna Laudel, Istanbul (2019), "Machine Culture", Pittsburggh International Festival, SPACE, Pittsburgh (2018), "Anger is a solution if anger means kittens", D21, Kunstraum Leipzig, Germany, (2018), "Fog: In the blink of a bird", Depo, Istanbul (2017), "Play is Freedom", Bomontiada, Istanbul, "Grammagraph", Tüyap, Istanbul (2016), "Stay With Me", Corridor Project Space Amsterdam (2016), "Colomboscope 2016-Testing Grounds: Art and Digital Cultures in South Asia and Europe", Former General Post Office, Colombo (2016), "Trocadero", Nesrin Esirtgen Collection, Istanbul (2014), "Home/s", Benaki Museum, Athens (2013), "Turkish Art New and Superb", TANAS, Berlin (2012), "When Ideas Become Crime", Depo, Istanbul (2010).