Process & Practice: Baris Gokturk & Jonathan Sánchez Noa
Join Dieu Donné virtually for a conversation between artists Baris Gokturk and Jonathan Sánchez Noa, moderated by Director of Artistic Projects & Master Collaborator Tatiana Ginsberg.
Both artists are alumni of Dieu Donné’s Workspace Residency Program (Gokturk ’23, Sánchez Noa ’24), which gives emerging visual artists the opportunity to explore paper pulp as an artistic medium under the mentorship of a skilled papermaker. The program encourages residents to explore the creative possibilities inherent in the hand papermaking process, and to develop this medium as a contemporary art form.
In this talk, Gokturk and Sánchez Noa will discuss their individual practices, their shared experience of casting handmade paper into sculptural forms, and how hand papermaking has continued to shape their work since the residency.
Baris Gokturk is an artist and educator raised in Turkey and Puerto Rico. He holds an MFA in Sculpture from Columbia University in addition to an MFA in painting from Hunter College. He is currently an Associate Professor at Rhode Island School of Design. He has previously taught at MassArt, The New School, Columbia University and Hunter College. Gokturk’s work explores themes of regeneration through fragmented figures and abstract spaces that represent spiritual unrest and relentless search for new possibilities. Gokturk has been an ApexArt fellow in Seoul, NXTHVN fellow in New Haven, artist-in-residence at ISCP, LMCC, Fountainhead and YADDO, as well as a participant in Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and SOMA Mexico among others. Gokturk has shown his work internationally in the US, Germany, Spain, France, Korea, Turkey and Puerto Rico. Recent museum exhibitions include New Museum, Jewish Museum and Hudson River Museum in New York, Pera Museum in Istanbul and Frost Museum in Miami. He created public works for Columbia University’s Butler Library and the Public Art Fund in New York. Gokturk is a founding member of JUNTE, a land, art and culture project in Puerto Rico incubated by the New Museum in New York.
Jonathan Sánchez Noa is a Cuban-American artist working with installation, papermaking, and sculpture. He creates artworks that examine how histories of colonial extractivism have impacted notions of race, identity, and climate. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Cooper Union in 2020, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2023. He was a fellow at The Bronx Museum AIM Program and resident at Santa Fe Art Institute, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Loghaven Artist Residency, Dieu Donné, Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, LMCC Arts Center, Artists Alliance Inc, Pratt>FORWARD, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and Oak Spring Garden Foundation. His work has been exhibited at Parrish Art Museum, NY (2026); Voloshyn Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine (2025); Liste Art Fair Basel, Switzerland (2025); ARCO Madrid, Spain (2025); The Bronx Museum, NY (2024); Print Center New York, NY (2024); Sugar Hill Museum, NY (2024); Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY (2024); Cleve Carney Museum of Art, IL (2023); The Clemente Center, NY (2022); and Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (2021) among others.