Mustafa Boğa is an artist based in the UK and Turkey. He completed his masters degree in 2016 from Central Saint Martins in London after studying for an MA in Fine Art. He also obtained another masters degree from Greenwich University in London after studying an MA in Cinematography and Post Production. Before that, he achieved a bachelors degree from Istanbul University after studying at the Faculty of Communication and Journalism.

Mustafa has won several awards including The Red Mansion Art Prize, which took him to China, where he created a piece of work entitled ‘There He is Without a Proper Diagnosis’ relating to his different cultural experiences. He was selected to perform at The Royal Academy in conjunction with the Ai Weiwei exhibition, and was also selected to attend workshops with Isaac Julian and Mark Nash at the 56th Venice Biennale. Mustafa has had solo exhibitions in London, Iceland and Berlin, and group shows in Beijing, Athens, London, Oxford, Ruse and Poznan. In addition, he has worked with other artists including his long-term collaborator Kolbrun Inga Soring who together work on an on-going project called 'The Forth Culture – Micro Nation’ which was invited to show at the SOUISOUI Studio in Berlin. Together, they were also awarded a scholarship from The Listastofan Gallery in Iceland. Mustafa has recently worked with international artists such as Otobong Nkanga and Irena Haiduk, and has performed in Documenta14 in Kassel, Germany. His recent work involved running an art residency and curating a show in his hometown, Adana, in October 2017 where the theme of ‘Self Portrait’ encouraged participants to reflect on how their behaviours change when living in unfamiliar cultures. The subsequent exhibition reflected how this impacted on their senses of identity. In 2018 he was awarded as ‘Highly Commended Artist’ at the Ashurt Emerging Artist Prize and got a fellowship at RAW Material Company in Dakar, Senegal. In 2019 he took part in a residency (ThirdBase) in Lisbon where he created a series of textile works called ‘The landscape of Perpetual Flags’. For this work he looked at drawing of objects from rural areas to think about nation as a whole and how immigration has changed the social life in Portugal through work force of indigenous people.

He examines the differences between art and documentary and how contemporary multi-media manipulate our understanding of current affairs. He is interested in the boundaries that separate the viewing of events as a witness and his desire to tell stories. He has a background in journalism and film and has brought these skills into play in his fine art practice. The works are a way of narrating his background both emotionally and culturally, not just as portraying with images, but how they are reserved and recollected in his mind. They are inspired by family history, childhood memories and personal experiences. The works deal critically (but also humorously) with issues such as gender, national identity, militarism, masculinity and sexuality. I work across a range of different media including photography, video, printmaking, installation and performance.