Damla Tamer

Damla Tamer is a visual artist and educator based in Vancouver on unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territories, serving as a Continuing Studies Instructor and Lecturer at Emily Carr University of Art and Design while also teaching at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. Her internationally exhibited work spans solo presentations at Access Gallery (2024), Gibsons Public Art Gallery (2022), Darling Foundry (2013), and Fifty Fifty Arts Collective (2018), alongside inclusion in Contemporary Art Gallery's "The Artist’s Studio is Her Bedroom" (2020) and featuring on Capilano Review's cover (3.42: Translingual).

Her research critically investigates intersections of textile crafts and contemporary studio practices through weaving, developing new ethics of temporality at the nexus of aesthetics and politics. Current projects trace neoliberal authoritarianism in Turkey within global contexts, examining civil protest evolution, resistance methodologies, and language's capacity to navigate representation in rapidly shifting sociopolitical landscapes, with recent works including "Biber Bahçesi / Pepper Garden" (2022) and "Yüzey Halleri / Surface Conditions" (2024).

Awarded a Stundars Museum residency in Finland and shortlisted for the 221A Fellowship, her practice extends into social collaboration through founding the artist mothers collective A.M. (Art Mamas), which has organized public programming and co-published scholarly work on motherhood, care labor, and art production within systems of social reproduction.