About

Artist Serkan Altinoz

Serkan Altinoz is a Brooklyn based visual artist who treats water as an active collaborator rather than a passive surface. His practice focuses on fluid dynamics—a "living system" that carries pigment and reorganizes form in real-time. By mastering timing and material behavior, he captures the precise moment liquid movement stabilizes into permanent form.

Rooted in traditional training and years of experimentation, his process is materially intensive and reaction-driven. He works with hand-crushed pigments and natural binders, alongside acrylic and enamel paints and chemical solvents, building layered compositions through controlled interventions that guide flow, dispersion, and surface tension.

The resulting work is a record of transformation: precise yet unstable, evolving through repetition and calculated risk.

This approach has been presented in solo exhibitions at Queens Botanical Garden (2018) and Salomon Arts Gallery (2018), and in group contexts including Postcards from the Edge at Berry Campbell Gallery (2024, 2025). He is a recipient of the NYFA City Artist Corps Grant (2021), and his work is held in collections including Related Companies (NY), Queens Botanical Garden (NY), and Ege University Paper and Book Arts Museum (Izmir, Turkey).

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