Özge Dîlan Arslan (b. 1994, İstanbul) is a visual artist and curator based in Tkarón:to/Toronto. Her interdisciplinary practice explores printmaking, publishing, and archival research across printed, textual, and multimedia materials. She is the founder of ASTAR Editions, a collective publishing studio and archive dedicated to earth-rooted printed matter.
Özge is a core staff member of The Asian Canadian Living Archive (TACLA), and is currently archiving Anatolian bread-making traditions with Bread on Earth — a visual and textual exploration of the past, present, and future of grain and bread. From 2018 to 2021, she founded and directed Diaspora Express, a Southwest Asian and North African art collective. She has worked as Research Associate with the Studio for Media Activism and Critical Thought and Archivist at SKETCH Working Arts, where she co-curated Threads of Resistance (2022), an exhibition grounded in archival research and community storytelling through textile arts and craft. She also curated Changing the Current (2020), the annual Intersection | Cross-Sections art exhibition, which explored shifting ecologies alongside broader cultural, social, and political currents.
Özge holds a joint Master of Arts in Communication and Culture from Toronto Metropolitan University and York University, where she focused on arts-based interdisciplinary research.
Email: ozgedilanarslan.studio@gmail.com
Instagram: ozge.dilan.arslan
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Standing in an olive grove (Edremit Gulf, 2024).
Özge is a core staff member of The Asian Canadian Living Archive (TACLA), and is currently archiving Anatolian bread-making traditions with Bread on Earth — a visual and textual exploration of the past, present, and future of grain and bread. From 2018 to 2021, she founded and directed Diaspora Express, a Southwest Asian and North African art collective. She has worked as Research Associate with the Studio for Media Activism and Critical Thought and Archivist at SKETCH Working Arts, where she co-curated Threads of Resistance (2022), an exhibition grounded in archival research and community storytelling through textile arts and craft. She also curated Changing the Current (2020), the annual Intersection | Cross-Sections art exhibition, which explored shifting ecologies alongside broader cultural, social, and political currents.
Özge holds a joint Master of Arts in Communication and Culture from Toronto Metropolitan University and York University, where she focused on arts-based interdisciplinary research.
Email: ozgedilanarslan.studio@gmail.com
Instagram: ozge.dilan.arslan
Standing in an olive grove (Edremit Gulf, 2024).