Born and raised in Istanbul in 1978, Yasemin Kackar-Demirel is an artist who explores her observations of natural and human built environments through abstraction. Her works include paintings, drawings, textiles and sculptures through the use of paint, embroidery, rughooking, collage, block printing and marbling.
Kackar-Demirel received her MFA from Northern Illinois University, and her BFA from Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey. She has had solo exhibitions at The Yard: City Hall Park, (NYC), Mooney Center Gallery of The College of New Rochelle, (NY), C.A.M. Gallery, (Istanbul, Turkey), Courthouse Gallery of Lake George Arts Project, (Lake George, NY), and McLean County Arts Center, (Bloomington, IL), including her recent virtual exhibition with Laura A. Sprague Gallery of Joliet Junior College, (Joliet, IL), among other venues. Her works have been exhibited in group shows across the United States as well as internationally in Israel, Italy, and Turkey. She attended the residency programs at the School Of Visual Arts in NYC and AreaOdeon in Monza, Italy. She is a recipient of Moon and Stars Project’s Exhibition Award. Her work has been featured in various catalogs and periodicals including Dovetail, Pikchur, New American Paintings and Fresh Paint and is included in the online curated registries of The Drawing Center, All She Makes and in the Flat File 2021 Program at Collar Works. She lives and works in Lower Hudson Valley, Cortlandt Manor, New York.