Orkan Telhan (born 1976 in Oberhausen, West Germany) is the Chief Information and Data Officer at Ecovative and the board president of Biodesign Challenge.
Telhan holds a PhD in Design and Computation[1] from MIT's Department of Architecture.
[3] He studied Media Arts[4] at the University at Buffalo and theories of media and representation, visual studies and Graphic Design[5] at Bilkent University.
His individual and collaborative work has been exhibited internationally in venues including the Istanbul Biennial (2013,[6] 2023[7]), Istanbul Design Biennial (2012[8] 2016[9] 2020[10]), Milano Design Week,[11] Vienna Design Week,[12] the Armory Show 2015 Special Projects,[13] Ars Electronica,[14] ISEA, LABoral,[15] ArchiLab, Architectural Association, The Architectural League of New York, MIT Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit,[16] the New Museum of Contemporary Art[17] New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art,[18] the Walker Art Center,[19] Design Museum,[20] London, and Museo Reina Sofia.
Telhan was a co-founder of Biorealize Inc.,[23] a biotech company specialized in making next generation tools to make it easier to design with biology.