Iris Ergül is an Istanbul-based artist, educator, and transdisciplinary researcher working across sculpture, installation, video, performance, collage, drawing, and text. Her practice examines the entangled relations that shape life across human and more-than-human worlds. She focuses on uncovering the animal strata within the human—those embodied, sensorial, and instinctive dimensions historically suppressed by dominant cultural and scientific frameworks. Through this orientation, she investigates how bodies, species, and environments encounter one another across shifting sensory, material, and epistemic thresholds, generating possibilities for reimagined forms of coexistence.

 

İris received her BA in Sculpture from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and completed her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute as a Fulbright Scholar. She is currently pursuing her Proficiency in Art (practice-based PhD) at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.

 

She is a founding member of HemCereyan, a site-specific, process-oriented, and performative research collective. Alongside her individual work, she develops transdisciplinary projects, public programs, and collaborative research in local and international contexts—usually with her dog, Leyla, at her side.