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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 honour certificate.  After high school education, he continued his art education at Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture and completed his education in 2018 as the project winner with an honour certificate, and the project took its place 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 organised by the Istanbul Chamber of Architects. In 2017, he took part in many 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 took part in many national and international exhibitions, art residencies, workshops and symposiums. In 2018, he won the Akbank Contemporary Artists Award Competition. In 2020, he won the first prize in the sculpture competition organised by AsaÅŸ Art and took his place in the permanent collection of ASAÅž Art.  

 

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

 

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 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 

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2025

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

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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 Exhibiton, Bodrum, Turkey

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2023

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

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2022

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

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2021

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

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

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

ArtContact Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

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2020

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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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2016

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

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

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

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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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