Grants, Awards and Scholarships
2023
Grant by Het Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, The Netherlands.
2018
Development grant by Het Amsterdamse Fonds voor de Kunst, The Netherlands.
Grant by Het Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.
2011
Treehouse Press Prize for graphic short stories.
Institutional Collections
2022
Artists' Book Prize of the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and the Curt Mast Jägermeister Foundation for Spielraum.
2015
Global Arts Fund Award, Astraea Foundation, NYC.
2010
Travel grant by the Turkish Embassy.
Travel grant by the Dutch Embassy.
Library of Congress
To Separate The Body From The Machine, Iron Bunnies Hop, Wetrocities, War is a four letter word
New York Public Library (NYPL)
To Separate The Body From The Machine
Stanford University
To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance, Iron Bunnies Hop
KB nationale bibliotheek
To Separate The Body From The Machine, To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance, Iron Bunnies Hop
Harvard University Fine Arts Library
That Bit of Physical Distance, Home of the Brave
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Memory Patches
University of California Irvine (UCI)
Memory Patches, Wetrocities, Home of the Brave
The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
Wetrocities
The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
To Separate The Body From The Machine
2020
Exhibition grant by Goethe Institute New York - Friends of Goethe.
2014
The Art Students League Ruth Katzman Scholarship.
2008 -2007
Grant by Het Prins Bernard Cultuur Fonds, The Netherlands.
Research and creation grant by Het Amsterdamse Fonds voor de Kunst, The Netherlands.
University of Connecticut (UCONN)
To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance, Home of the Brave, Wetrocities
Grinnell College
To Separate The Body From The Machine, Iron Bunnies Hop
University of Colorado at Boulder
Iron Bunnies Hop
Smith College
Iron Bunnies Hop
Wesleyan University
Iron Bunnies Hop, To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance
Talks and Lectures
The Getty Research Institute
I Kill You in Dreams, Iron Bunnies Hop
Aga Khan Documentation Center MIT
I Kill you in Dreams
University of Southern California (USC)
Home of the Brave
University of Puget Sound
Wetrocities
Columbia University Libraries
Fear City
University of Miami
Wetrocities
University of Iowa
Home of the Brave
School of the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston, Tufts University
To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance, Home of the Brave, I Kill you in Dreams
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
To Separate The Body From The Machine, Fear City, Home of the Brave, Solitary Confinement, War is a four letter word, Kitchen Table Diaries, Wetrocities, Memory Patches, To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance, Iron Bunnies Hop, I Kill you in Dreams
Herzog August Bibliothek
Wetrocities, To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance, To Separate The Body From The Machine, Home of the Brave, #Spielraum, I Kill you in Dreams
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
War is a four letter word
School of the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston, Tufts University
To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance, Home of the Brave, I Kill you in Dreams
Dartmouth College
Memory Patches
Swarthmore
Iron Bunnies Hop
Carnegie Mellon
Iron Bunnies Hop
Amherst College
Home of the Brave
St. Olaf College
Iron Bunnies Hop
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art
To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance, Fear City, I Kill You in Dreams
University of Delaware Library
To Separate The Body From The Machine, To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance, Iron Bunnies Hop, Home of the Brave, War is a four letter word, Wetrocities, I Kill you in Dreams
Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts, Wits Art Museum (WAM), South Africa
To Keep That Bit of Physical Distance, Iron Bunnies Hop
University of California at Los Angeles, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library (UCLA)
To Separate The Body From The Machine
2023
“The Artists’ Books in our Times.” A conversation with Curtis Small at the University of Delaware.
“Beldan Sezen and Aaron Salık on the Circulation of Rare Book Materials.” A conversation with UCLA California Rare Book School (CalRBS) Project Manager Sean Pessin at Talas, NY
2015
Panelist at Queer Comics Con NYC
Author Talk at Orbital Comics, London UK
Snapshots of a Girl. A conversation with Chris J. Thompson - Pop Culture Hound.
Author Talk at the American Book Center in Amsterdam
2019
Participant at Dialoges of a future communication - Entanglement #4 by Jenny Brockmann and Niama Sandy at 1014 Inc, New York.
Guest Lecture at Bronx Community College, New York
Author Talk at New York Public Library (NYPL)
Panelist at Queer Comics Con New York
2014
Press, Reviews, Bibliography
Author Talk at UDU, Venezia, Italy
Author Talk at Arcigay, Padova
Author Talk at Arcigay Catania, Italy
Author Talk at ZOO, Bologna, Italy
2018
Panelist at Comics Con NYC
2011
2017
Guest Lecture at Bronx Community College, NYC
Author Talk at Gay’s The Word, London
2007
2016
Guest Lecture at NYU Tisch
Guest Lecture at Columbia University, New York
“Being a Cartoon Artist.” Guest Lecture at Southbank International School, London
Bainbridge Museum of Art: Power of the Presses: In Our Hands., Exhibition Catalog, 2025
Sana López Abellán, Beldan Sezen. El libro como espacio; pequeña escala, grandes temas, MMM X, 2024
Peter Burschel, Sarah Janke, Der Rote Faden - Künstlerbücher der Herzog August Bibliothek, 2023
Dr. Lilian Landes, Künstlerbücher als visuelle Archive. Beldan Sezens “Kitchen Table Diaries”, Kunst zwischen Deckeln, 2023
Paul van Capelleveen, Artist’s Book Award for Beldan Sezen, Quaerendo, Volume 52, Issue 4, 2022
Sarah Janke, Not We: Zur Konstruktion des Weißseins „Wetrocities“ von Beldan Sezen, HAB-blog, 2022
Peter Burschel, Die Herzog August Bibliothek: Eine Geschichte in Büchern, p. 103, 2022
Construction of Identity in: Jenny Brockmann, Dialoges on a Future Communication, 2019
Dr. Lilian Landes, Subersive Seiten, aviso -Zeitrschift für Wissenschaft & Kunst in Bayern, 2019
Henderson, W., NYCC'18: Outspoken – A Perculiar Time to be a Queer Cartoonist, The Beat, 2018
Five Must-Read LGBTQ Comics, Bookish, 2018
Marasligil, C., Snapshots of a Comics Artist: Interview with Beldan Sezen, Bookwitty, 2017
Handal, N., The City and the Writer: In Istanbul with Beldan Sezen, Words Without Borders Daily, 2017
Shraya, Vivek, Snapshots of a Girl Coming Into Herself, Plenitude Magazine, 2016
Shraya, Vivek, Snapshots of a Girl Coming Into Herself, Plenitude Magazine, 2016
Krishna, S., Snapshots of a Girl by Beldan Sezen, BookRiot, 2016
The Best LGBT Graphic Novels You Missed, THE ADVOCATE, 2016
Thompson, C., Snapshots of a Book with Beldan Sezen!, Pop Culture Hound Episode 163, 2015
Sandborn, T., APP: Exploring what it’s like to be young, gay and brown, Vancouver Sun, Oct. 26th 2015
Clough, Rob, A Survey Of International Small Press Comics, The Comics Journal, May 2012
Campher, C. 'Zakkum: A Graphic Murder Mystery' by Beldan Sezen, Lambda Literary, April 2012
Kirsh, Andrea, June in Amsterdam: Beldan Sezen's "Zakkum" etc. The Artblog, june 2011
Sy, Souha, beldan sezen fights against the collective mentality in aleppo!, souria al ghad, Oct. 2010
Touma, Issa, Aleppo 8th International Women Art Festival, October 2010, 60 p. catalogue
Baumgart-Pietsch, Anja, Ein mysteriöser Todesfall, Wiesbadener Tageblatt, Okt., 26, 2009
Fragogna, B., & Reiter, M. Personally Political – contemporary sensation: drawing. Berlin: Tacheles e.V., catalogue, Juni 2009. 44 pages
Saleh, L., raw talent - Cartoonist Beldan Sezen, feature, SABLE - LitMag, fall issue, 2006
Veerkamp, M, Cultuur verdrijft treurige sfeer, Het Parool, Oktober, 28, 2004, p.18 review
Steyerl, Hito, "Talking Home", review, springerin, Vienna, 1999