bio

Ahmed Ozsever (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist who works in photography, installation, time-based media, sculpture, and text. His work is geographically focused and responds to the spatial anomalies, as well as the hidden histories of a given location. He works from the perspective that the conditions of the Anthropocene are the result of humans’ inability to comprehend time scales that extend beyond ourselves. Specifically, the climate crisis is a crisis of imagination, resulting from the shortcomings of living on a clock that keeps people locked into short-term thinking, rather than seeing life on a broader timeline. From this position, he creates visual and textual works inspired by direct experience of land, while also referencing the traditions and technologies by which we depict landscapes and shape collective knowledge about place.

Ahmed earned his BFA from Herron School of Art and Design at IU Indianapolis and received his MFA from Cornell University. He lives and works in Bloomington, IN, where he holds the position of Assistant Professor of Creative Core (art and design foundations) in the Eskenazi School or Art, Architecture, and Design at Indiana University Bloomington.

Ahmed’s independent and collaborative works have been exhibited throughout the US at venues including the South Bend Museum of Art, the Indiana State Museum, Visual Arts Gallery at University of Illinois Springfield, Pilot Projects in Philadelphia, PA, station923 in Ithaca, NY, and Site109 in New York City, among others. Ahmed’s public artworks have been exhibited at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA, the 2017 Terrain Biennial in Springfield, IL, and the Hapgood-Wright Forest in Concord, MA. He has been awarded residencies at Stove Works in 2025, ACRE in 2017, and a CORE Artist in Residence at Chicago Art Department in 2018.


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