Muzaffer Malkoç is an artist and researcher whose work spans painting, installation, photography, digital media, and writing. He was born in Istanbul, where he lives and works.
Before turning to an independent practice, Malkoç spent two decades as a creative director in advertising, an industry built on the production of persuasive images. That experience became the material of the work rather than a prelude to it. His practice now examines the systems he once operated from within, asking how faces are measured, how identities are registered, and what those procedures cannot hold.
He holds an MA in Turkish-Islamic Art History from Marmara University, with research on the transmission of sacred architectural form in Central Asia. He is a faculty member at Istanbul Medipol University and publishes on visual culture, aesthetics, and communication in international peer-reviewed journals.
Recent projects include PersonA (AKM Istanbul, 2025), an interactive portrait installation in which visitors' faces are measured, morphed, and returned to them as data, and the ongoing Biyometrik series, which concerns the distance between a face as measured and a face as known. Earlier bodies of work, among them My Orientalism Is Better Than Yours and Viva La Muerte!, address representation, inherited imagery, and cultural self-description.
His work has been exhibited at AKM Istanbul, Beşiktaş Modern, Darphane-i Amire at Topkapı Palace, and the Istanbul State Fine Arts Gallery, among other venues.