The Artists Roundtable, an international forum for leading practitioners, is hosted by David A. Ross, faculty member of the MA Curatorial programs at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Ahmet Ögüt, born in 1981 in Silvan, Diyarbakır, Turkey, lives and works in Amsterdam, Istanbul, and Berlin. A renowned conceptual and activist artist, he initiated The Silent University in 2012, which describes itself as a “solidarity-based knowledge-exchange platform by displaced people and forced migrants” and has taken place in several European cities. He has had more than 40 solo exhibitions around the world and participated in more than 150 group exhibitions over the last 20 years. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Stedelijk Museum, the Van Abbemuseum, the Frans Hals Museum, the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kadist, and the Museum Goetz in Munich, among many others. Ögüt received his BA from Hacettepe University in Ankara, his MA from Yildiz Teknik University in Istanbul, and spent two years at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.