Misal Adnan Yıldız is a curator, writer, and educator.
Yıldız is the former director of Artspace NZ in Auckland in New Zealand (November 2014- June 2017). Previous to that he held the position of artistic director at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart in Germany (2011 – 2014). Together with Hito Steyerl and Şener Özmen, he is one of the initiators of ASA; a collaborative structure inspired by the works of Takiyuddin Efendi, El Cez- eri, Fahru’l-Nisa and Şêx Evdirehmanê Axtepî among others.
Yıldız studied Psychology and Educational Science (double major programme) at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, and later completed his masters degree in Visual Arts and Visual Theory at Sabancı Uni. of Turkey in parallel with his teaching assistant position.