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Pinar Yolaçan (born 1981) is a contemporary Turkish artist based in New York City. One of her most well-known series, Perishables, depicts portraits of elderly women in garments created by Yolaçan from raw meat and animal parts.[1]
Yolaçan studied fashion design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and Media Art in Chelsea School of Art before graduating from the Cooper Union with a BFA in 2004.[2] While at Cooper Union, Yolaçan was runner-up in the New York Times Magazine "Capture The Times", photography contest for college students.[3]
Yolaçan describes her underlying theme in her work as her "interest in the female body".[1] She has cited inspiration in forms of the Queen of England [sic]-type imperial icon and the Victorian body, to the Christian religious icons of Maria and the colonial baroque period, to deity figures from pre-neolithic period which was the archetype of beauty surrounding Turkey thousands of years ago.[1]
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