Pelin Uran is a free-lance curator based in Istanbul. After she completed her studies at Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies in 2005, she has worked at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. Since moving back to Istanbul, she has curated/co-curated exhibitions and contributed to art magazines.

Most recently in September 2023, Uran was the curator of Among Friends: One Chapter of a Long Story exhibition with works by late Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin and 16 of his artist friends, at Galerist, İstanbul.

She has been working on a triology since 2017. The first leg of it was an exhibition on the concept of death called we do not know this to be so at Galeri Nev, İstanbul in 2018. The exhibition included works by artists who recognized that death not only means loss, separation, mourning, but is also a blessing of life and are thus not afraid of paradoxes and looking death in the face.

The second stage was an exhibition on the concept of vulnerability entitled Also Your Wound, Rosa at Kurtulus Greek Primary School in 2022. The artists’ works acknowledged various layers of vulnerabilities as a potential for change. The exhibition aspired to encourage spectators to open themselves to different perceptions of vulnerability and to let themselves be affected by what they are looking at.

The last leg of the trilogy is scheduled for 2025.

Uran previously curated Endgame in Space Loop in Seoul, Korea in 2008, An Artist Who Cannot Speak English is No Artist at Artists Space, New York in May 2006 and a forest and a tree in Newbourg, New York in April 2005 which has traveled to Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienne in March 2007.

Her former co-curated exhibitions are: This Story is not ready for its Footnotes in Rome in 2010, Transit both in Italy and Turkey in 2009, Dai Tempo al Tempo, in Torino, Italy in 2008, the night program: nightcomers for the 10th Istanbul Biennial in 2007, If it is not love, it is the bomb at Bard College, New York in 2005.

Besides having contributed to an online contemporary art biweekly, Might Be Good, she wrote for Speech, a project by the collaborative duo, a constructed world, for Insight, the magazine of Artists Pension Trust, Art in America, domus and was a contributor for UOVO Magazine.