Işın Önol (born 1977, alternative spelling: Isin Onol) is a New York City and Vienna-based Turkish and Austrian curator of contemporary art.
"[8] The project focuses on community engagement, addressing collective grief and rage through workshops, public events, and the Imagine Repair exhibition, which was curated by Işın Önol at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
As described in an article from CulturaUNAM, the project "combina las prácticas artísticas y teatrales con una amplia comprensión teórica y holística del trauma, el duelo, la memoria corporal, y hemos pedido a artistas que propongan talleres abiertos a los participantes, concebidos como co-creadores" (combines artistic and theatrical practices with a broad theoretical and holistic understanding of trauma, grief, and bodily memory, asking artists to propose workshops open to participants, conceived as co-creators).
Juan Carlos Ruiz, George Emilio Sanchez, Noni Carter, Imani Uzuri, and a concert by Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir.
"[15] As noted in Frieze, the exhibition "covers a momentous decade (1975–83) of her underappreciated practice, exposing the personal vocabulary she developed in her eponymous 1977 artist’s book, including ‘string’, ‘tear’ and ‘torn’.
"[17] When Home Won't Let You Stay (2016): This exhibition, held in Vienna, addressed urgent issues of displacement, human rights, and the politics of coexistence.
The project involved close collaboration with individuals from Syria and Iraq who had fled their homes, using art to create spaces of empathy and understanding amidst a humanitarian crisis.
[20] The artists in this series of iterations include Simone Leigh, Gülsün Karamustafa, Susan Meiselas, Lorie Novak, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Deborah Willis, among others.