Meral Güler is a British visual artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her practice moves between memory, place, and disappearance where histories quietly surface and recede.
Her work begins with the analogue negative as physical evidence. She uses chemical exposure and digital layering to reconstruct new works, exploring the urge to remember and the compulsion to forget, examining the intersections of past and present, the imagined and the real, and prompting questions about perception itself.
Meral holds an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea School of Art (UAL) and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Middlesex University, London. Her work has been widely exhibited in the UK and internationally, with notable presentations at institutions and galleries such as the BFI in London, the Benaki Museum in Athens, and the Julius Shulman Gallery in Los Angeles. She was the inaugural recipient of the Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Award for her photo book collaboration, You Would Be Earth. Works by the artist are held in permanent and private collections across the United Kingdom and Europe.
Her work begins with the analogue negative as physical evidence. She uses chemical exposure and digital layering to reconstruct new works, exploring the urge to remember and the compulsion to forget, examining the intersections of past and present, the imagined and the real, and prompting questions about perception itself.
Meral holds an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea School of Art (UAL) and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Middlesex University, London. Her work has been widely exhibited in the UK and internationally, with notable presentations at institutions and galleries such as the BFI in London, the Benaki Museum in Athens, and the Julius Shulman Gallery in Los Angeles. She was the inaugural recipient of the Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Award for her photo book collaboration, You Would Be Earth. Works by the artist are held in permanent and private collections across the United Kingdom and Europe.
View : artist's CV/ 2026
“Alive. So seems the photography and the attention that Meral Güler gives to the environment and what appears or performs within it. Relentless and irreverent,
sometimes ironic and subtle, the artists ignores the canons of wink, judicious and politically correct aesthetic to give vent to a personal poetic voice. Her scathing style reflects the need for scraping from the social conscience the last crumbs of humanity.
Shots that express a deep subjectivity and a desire not to surrender to reality”.
Steve Bisson, Founding Editor, Urbanautica Institute
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“Unlike a written story, with a beginning, middle and an end, Meral Güler photographs a point in a segment of an event. She has the ability to be able to choose that particular point, which could be seen as the center of a star-shaped beam. She is the fulcrum on which many stories, more or less related, randomly cross. This is the evocative power of her images. She does not pass through the aesthetic but manages to concentrate a great intensity of balances in her images, compressing information to the point that almost seem ready to explode”.
Claudio Starita, Art Journalist
Steve Bisson, Founding Editor, Urbanautica Institute
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“Unlike a written story, with a beginning, middle and an end, Meral Güler photographs a point in a segment of an event. She has the ability to be able to choose that particular point, which could be seen as the center of a star-shaped beam. She is the fulcrum on which many stories, more or less related, randomly cross. This is the evocative power of her images. She does not pass through the aesthetic but manages to concentrate a great intensity of balances in her images, compressing information to the point that almost seem ready to explode”.
Claudio Starita, Art Journalist