A research based artist working across media –notably video, performance and sound– Hande Sever (b. Hande Lara Sever) was raised in Istanbul, Turkey. She received her MFA in Art and Technology from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and her double BA in Visual Arts and Computer Science from Emory University. Informed by transdisciplinary processes, her work often takes up her family’s history of persecution to explore divergent lines of inquiries, including military violence, surveillance and censorship. Sever’s transdisciplinary and concept-driven practice combines lens-based image making with organic materials such as ash, resin and soil to unearth the shared materiality underpinning colonial histories. Sever’s works have been presented at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, UK; MAK Museum Vienna, Austria; CICA Museum Seoul, South Korea; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; A.I.R. Gallery in New York; BOX Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. Her writing has been published by the Getty Research Journal, the Journal of Arts & Communities, the Stedelijk Studies journal, MARCH Journal of Art & Strategy and X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, among others. She was a Post-MFA artist-in-residence at the Hauser & Wirth and a Time Space Money artist-in-residence at the Human Resources Los Angeles. Her works have been supported with grants from the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation, California Arts Council, Getty Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation and Russell Foundation. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Art History, Theory, and Criticism program with a concentration in Art Practice at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), and a Pressing-Matter Artist-in-Residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, NL.