About
Julian Konuk is a Turkish American transdisciplinary artist based in London. Spanning video, writing, photography, and mixed-media collage, his research-based practice emerges from a trans poetic approach to destabilise the historicity of the archive, and ultimately of genre itself. Thus, he utilises collage; visually, materially, and sonically, as a method to investigate the transcorporeal, fragmented body within architecturally framed and socially constructed compositions. Often engaging with archival material, his practice explores tenuous intimacies, playing with voyeurism and eroticism in transing the past, in order to invoke speculative futures and fantastical modes of communication and language. 

Julian Konuk was born in Plano, Texas in 1998 and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He currently lives and works in London, where he received a BA from Camberwell College of Arts in 2021, before completing his MA in photography from the Royal College of Art in 2023.

He has exhibited and screened work internationally throughout the UK, Japan, France, North America, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Brazil. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Arebyte Gallery (2026), “my home, the city, a man” with Femme Gallery at Saltspace (2025), “t-masc erotics through the cam hole” with Queer Circle (2025), “Trans Day of Joy” with Somerset House (2023), the Barbican (2022), Ugly Duck (2024), Pushkin House (2024), and Fringe! Queer Film Fest (2020-2023). Selected writing pieces and photographic imagery were recently published in Object: (of affection) with Pony Press, Der Greif, A Feeld Magazine, T’ART Press, in Mourning, with Sticky Fingers Publishing, Carrion Press, as well as the limited edition art book, With No Orbit. He holds a masters degree in photography from the Royal College of Art, where he was the recipient of the New Photography Prize 2023, judged by Hana Noorali with the support of Simon Bishop. You can currently see his solo show “the belt of the horizon, your stomach,” on display at Bric Gallery Cafe until August 22nd, 2026.