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Tijen Tunali is an art historian, artist and curator. She completed her  BFA in studio arts (State University of New York at Binghamton), MA in visual studies (State University of New York at Buffalo) and Ph.D. contemporary art history, theory and criticism (University of New Mexico).  Her academic work focuses on democratizing and decolonizing art, culture and space. Her performances, films, installations and mixed media paintings explore the question of human-nonhuman relationships from the phenomenological, psychoanalytical, decolonial, feminist, and post-anthropocentric perspectives.

Her doctoral research analyzed the dialectical relationship of contemporary art and aesthetics to neoliberal globalization and political mobilizations. Various fellowships supported it from institutions including the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Terra Foundation, Tinker Foundation and Phyllis Muth Foundation in the US, the DAAD Foundation in Germany, and the Latin American Studies Institute at the Univesity of New Mexico.

She completed her Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at Le Studium Institute  &  the University of Tours. Later she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Cofund Fellow at Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies in Denmark. She is currently an Andrew Mellon Fellow at CGC Amman/Columbia University.

She has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the aesthetics and politics of contemporary art. In 2021 she edited the book Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape,  published by Routledge. She also edited special issues on art's relationship to the politics of the urban space published by the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies Jornal, Urban Creativity Journal, Street Arts Journal and Public Arts Journal.

With Prof. Brian Winkenweder, she is currently working on the volume "Routledge Companion to Marxisms in Art History" with the contributions of 35  Marxist scholars across the world.

CONTACT:  tt2928@columbia.edu