Genco Gülan (1969) is a contemporary conceptual artist based in Istanbul and exhibiting worldwide. Gulan defines his practices in painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, performance, photography, video, installation, environmental art, contemporary theater and new media simply as ‘idea art’. Gulan studied at Bogazici University, attended Greg Wolff studio. 
He got his masters from New School University, New York. He got Young Artists award in1993 from BP. In 2011, he was selected as a finalist for Sovereign European Art Prize and in 2015 was given Master Artist award at Aegean Art Prize of Ege University. In 2019, he was given Milliyet Sanat sculpture prize and in 2023 Istanbul Airport IGA Art. He participated in festivals such as Steirishes Herbst, prog-me Rio de Janeiro, Balkan Art Novi Sad, Bonner Biennale, Kommagene Biennial and Mediterranean Biennial, Tarsus. His works are listed as required reading at City University, Rice University, University of California Santa Barbara and Universitat Hamburg. Gulan gave conferences at Yale, SVA, Köln, Bilgi, NYIT and Incheon University. He was in the Advisory Board of Balkan Biennial Cosmopolis and the International Programming Committee of ISEA Singapore. His monographies were edited by Prof. Dr. Marcus Graf and Prof. Dr. Hasan Bulent Kahraman. 

He is the founder of the istanbumuseum.org and the Web Biennial. Gulan gave lectures at Mimar Sinan Academy, Yeditepe and Bogazici University of Istanbul.