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About

 He started his high school education at Ankara Fine Arts High School in 2009 and completed the painting department in 2013 with an honor certificate.  After high school, he continued his art education at Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture, and completed his studies in 2018 as the project winner, receiving an honor certificate; the project was exhibited at IMOGA Museum.  

 

In 2015, he took part in the establishment of the Ankara Art and Society Association. In 2015, he took part in the workshop organized by the Istanbul Chamber of Architects. In 2017, he participated in numerous projects and worked with collective art groups in Mannheim, Germany, and Seoul, South Korea. In addition to having sculptures in countries such as Italy, Switzerland, South Korea, and Germany, he participated in numerous national and international exhibitions, art residencies, workshops, and symposia. In 2018, he won the Akbank Contemporary Artists Award Competition. In 2020, he won first prize in the sculpture competition organized by Asaş Art and was included in the permanent collection of Asaş Art.  

 

He continued his studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara in 2020, pursuing a Biennio program. In 2021, he participated in the Aura Istanbul Academy of Architecture and Urbanism training program. In 2021, he won the first prize in the ‘Scultura da Vivere’ sculpture competition organized by the Peano Foundation in Italy, and his work was permanently placed in the square of the city of Cuneo, Italy. He received the first prize in the 3rd New Discoveries in Sculpture Competition organized by Milliyet Art.  In 2020, he began his master's degree program at the Institute of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture, at Anadolu University. He develops his art practice by theoretically engaging with ontology and its sub-concepts.

 

Selected

 

 

 2009-2013, Ankara Fine Arts High School, Department of Painting

 2013-2018, Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture

 2020-2022, Accademia di Bella Arti di Carrara, Scultura Biennio

 2020-2021, Aura Istanbul Academy of Architecture and Urbanism Research Participations

 2024,           Anadolu University Institution of Fine Arts, MA Department of Sculpture 

2026

Bienal del Chaco, Resistencia, Argentina

Bienal del Impenetrable, Chaco, Argentina

2025

6th Riyadhart Tuwaiq International Sculpture Symposium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2024

SomoS Art Residency, Berlin, Germany

IV International Symposium of Sculpture in Black Calatorao Marble, Zaragoza, Spain

Elgiz Museum ‘’On the Trail of a Dream’’ Sculpture Terrace Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey

Alem ArtWeekend Mixed Exhibition, Bodrum, Turkey

2023

3rd New Discoveries in Sculpture Competition, - 1'st Prize, Istanbul, Turkey

2022

25'th Peano Foundation 'Scultura da Vivere' Sculpture Competition - 1st Prize, Cuneo, Italy

2021

'Humano' Loft-Art Mixed Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey

22nd International Büyükçekmece Sculpture Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey
Elgiz Museum ‘’The Future’’ Sculpture Terrace Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey

Art Engiadina, 27th International Sculptor's Symposium, Sur - En, Switzerland 

ArtContact Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

2020

‘’Piksel’’ New Media Residency, Istanbul, Turkey

ASAS Aluminum Sculpture Competition - 1st Prize, Istanbul, Turkey

38th AKBANK ‘Contemporary Artists Prize Exhibition’, Istanbul, Turkey

2019
Elgiz Museum ‘’Is There Life on Earth’’ Sculpture Terrace Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey

EVS JOUDG Breshia ‘Participatory Video as a Tool and Creative Arts’, Debar, Macedonia

2018

Elgiz Museum ‘’From Another Hill’’ Sculpture Terrace Exhibition Grove Art Mixed Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey

National Council of Education Fine Arts Faculties Degree Graduates Exhibition IX, Ordu, Turkey

‘’Playing Strategy of Art“ Workshop, Istanbul, Madrid

2017

METU ‘’Arts and Society Association’’ Mixed Exhibition, Ankara, Turkey 

Marmara University FAF 7. International Triennial, Istanbul, Turkey 

Daekyo International 3D Symposium, Seoul, South Korea 
MADEBYARTIST 10 Symposium, Varna, Bulgaria

’‘Breaching the Surface’’ - Subculture of Mannheim Workshop, Mannheim, Germany

“CCA-MUGSF “Locality And Global Discourse’’ Workshop, Istanbul, San Francesco 
EVS Genista Foundation ‘Sustainable Agriculture and Biological Diversity’, Kalkara, Malta

2016

Elgiz Museum ‘’Fugitive Shadow’’ Sculpture Terrace Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey

Başkent University ‘’Arts and Society Association’’ Mixed Exhibition, Ankara, Turkey 

Nazım Hikmet CAC ‘’Arts and Society Association’’ Mixed Exhibition, Ankara, Turkey 

2015

Istanbul Chamber of Architects ‘’Studio X’’ Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey

Kartal International Stone Sculpture Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey
'Journey to Renaissance’ Mixed Exhibition, Ankara, Turkey

European Union Plastic Arts Symposium, Ankara, Turkey

 

 

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