About

Derya Hanife Altan is probably shorter than you. That said, her ability to take you down should not be underestimated. Most of the time, she manages to keep her inner Lone Wolf McQuade at bay, finding it more fruitful to channel her energy into her video, sculpture, and  design work. Born and raised in Massachusetts, educated in New York
City, she draws inspiration from catastrophe, ethnic dress, decadence, and the ocean. A brilliant scientist once wrote of her ” I were a betting man, I’d bet on her to win–or at least to show.” She would like to acknowledge her friends, her family, and the Pencil Factory’s bloody mary recipe for being, in her own words, “all so awesome.”