About Nurhan Gokturk 

Nurhan Gokturk is a contemporary Turkish American visual artist and urban designer based in New Orleans. His interdisciplinary practice spans drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, installation, video, and public art. Through these media, his work explores history, collective memory, architecture, infrastructure, and the material landscape.

Nurhan's projects have been presented at the Venice Biennale, Aqua Art Miami, Art on Paper New York, the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, Onsite Gallery in Toronto, Governors Island Art Center in New York, and The New Institute in Rotterdam. His work has also appeared in the Bywater Biennial and Masterpeace, a Prospect New Orleans P.S. Satellite project.

His work and career have been featured in Metropolis Magazine and Gambit's "40 Under 40," and he has been interviewed by NPR. His honors include an Architizer A+ Award, Best of Show at the 2026 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and selection as the Official Poster Artist for the 2026 Crescent City Classic.

Nurhan is a faculty member at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, where he previously served as Printmaking Artist-in-Residence. He serves on the Board of Directors of Arts New Orleans as Development Chair. He is also the Collectors Club Artist at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, where he previously served as a Board Trustee and Program Chair.

He is a founding member of Camp Street Studios and The Parlour Gallery, two artist-run spaces supporting artists, exhibitions, and cultural programming in New Orleans.

Before focusing fully on his artistic practice, Nurhan worked as a senior designer at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Kohn Pedersen Fox in New York City. He later served as Director of Innovation at Terreform ONE and coordinated the first major Habitat for Humanity Buckminster Fuller Design Science Exhibition in Istanbul.

Nurhan holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute.