About the artist:

Born 1957 in Adiyaman, Turkey, lives and works in Istanbul. 1978-1982 Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Istanbul. 1988-1989 Fine Arts, Paris (French Goverment Scholarship). Selected Exhibitions And Projects 1985 "Painting Exhibitions", Urart Art Gallery, Istanbul and Ankara. 1987 "Time Paintings", Urart Art Gallery, Istanbul 1988 "Paint- Material- Medium", Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris 1990 "Painting Exhibitions", Vakko Art Gallery, Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir 1992 "Camera Lucida/Voyeurism/Body/Power", Installation, Urart Art Gallery, Istanbul 1992 "History/Origin/Geography/Identity" Installation, Taksim Art Gallery, Istanbul 1992 "Camera Lucida/Voyeurism/Body/Power", Installation, Urart Art Gallery, Ankara 1993 "Death and Art", Installation, City Museum of Skopje, Macedonia, 1994 "Mimesis/ Image/Simulacra/Mirror", Arrangement, Urart Art Gallery, Istanbul 1995 "Orientalux", Installation, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul 1995 "Labirent-City-Language", Installation, I.T.U. Taskisla, for Habitat, 10,5mx10,5 Miror, 1995 Glass, Acetate-Map, Istanbul 1995 "Book-Medium", Logos (Aphasia)- Semion (Asemasia)- (Non) Comm/uni/cati/on, Installation, Avrupa Passage, Istanbul 1995 "The Lost Of Body- Desiring Machines", Photo Albüm-Mobile Exhibition, Istanbul 1995 "Flesh- Castration- Abjection", AKM Art Gallery, Istanbul 1995 "Medium: Writing-Body"(Scripture e corps), Mobile Exhibition Book 2000 "Lapsus", (one-day exhibition), "The Painting-Act", Exhibition, Dolmabahçe Culture Center, Istanbul, Urart Art Gallery, Istanbul 2000 "Medium: Writing-Body", Book 2003 "TRGD:ZMN=MKN" PG art Gallery, Istanbul 2006 ;Penetratum - Neither inside nor ouside of my body" G-Art Gallery, Istanbul 2008 "Close Up", "Cinema Posters", Installation, Karşı Art, Istanbul Selected Group Exhibitions And Projects: 1981 "New Tendencies", Istanbul Art Festival, Istanbul 1982 "Home Decoration", Golden Palette Competition, Istanbul, (3 Mentions) 1982 Abdi İpekçi Friendship and Peace Prize, AKM Istanbul, (Award of Merit) 1983 Our Problems Painting Competition, TMMOB, Istanbul (First Prize) 1983 Mersin Fest Painting Competition, Mersin (Honorary Prize) 1983 DYO Competition, Istanbul (Mention) 1983 Golden Palette Competition, Baraz Gallery, Istanbul (First Prize) 1984 "A Selection of Turkish Paintings since 1950", Alarko Gallery, Istanbul, 1984 "Camera Lucida/Voyeurism/Body", Iktidar Gallery, Istanbul (Mention) 1984 Talens Painting Competition, Cumali Gallery, Istanbul (Award of Merit) 1984 Vakko Competition, Vakko Gallery, Istanbul (Mention) 1984 Golden Brush Competition-Hürriyet Gösteri Art Magazine , Tabar Gallery, Istanbul (Mention) 1984 "New Tendencies", Istanbul Art Festival, Istanbul 1984 DYO Competition, Odakule Trade Center, Istanbul (Prize) 1986 "Modernization Process in Turkish Painting", AKM, Istanbul 1988 "A Selection of Contemporary Turkish Painting", Mi-Ge Gallery, La Haye, Holland 1989 "A Retrospection of Recent Turkish Art", Beytem Gallery, Istanbul 1990 "Bodies", Urart Gallery, Istanbul 1991 "Maja-Transmission", Installation, Urart Gallery, Istanbul 1992 "Serotonin II", Installation, Gazhane, Istanbul 1993 "Mémoire-Souvenir II", Exhibition, Installation, No.50, Akaret Houses, Istanbul - Curated by V. Kortun 1993 "Writing and Difference", Installation, Gallery B, İstanbul – Curated by S. Milevska 1995 "Globalization; State, Misery, Violence", Installation, Devlet Han, Istanbul - Curated by A. Akay 1996 "The Other", Antrepo, Tophane, Istanbul 1996 "Medium", Performance, "Performance Days I", AKM, Istanbul 1997 "Chiasm" Exhibition Artisan Art Gallery, Istanbul 1997 "Hommage a Ockeghem" Exhibition, Grand Place a Saint- Ghislain, Produced by Dewart Gallery, Belgium 1997 "Intra-Medium-The Lost Of Body", Performance, "Performance Days II", Darphane, Istanbul 1997 "Desiring Machines", Installation-Performance, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul 1998 "A Special Day", Exhibition, "Happy is a man who calls himself a Turk!", Sound Installation, Istanbul Daily Art Library, Istanbul - Curated by V. Kortun 1998 "The Imagination of Republic" Exhibition "Writing-Body" Series Urart Galeri, Istanbul - Curated by A. Akay 2000 "Jon Turk / Export Revolution", 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, U.S.A. 2001 "The Modern Turk: Turkish Art in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century" Exhibition, Istanbul 2003 "Istanbul An International Refleetional" Christian IV's Bibliotek I "Runde Taarn", Copenhagen. 2004 "Quintet" (B. Baykam, T. Atagök, S. Demirtaş, İ. Doğan, Y. Taktak) Binyıl Sanat Gallery, Istanbul 2005 "A Fact Sheet – Production of Art in the 1980s" Exhibition, Karşı Art Works, İstanbul – Curated by B. Madra 2006 "Anywhere But Here", Ankara Central Railway Station, Ankara, Haydarpaşa Railway Station, Istanbul 2006 "Natür-Mort" (Still-Life), Gallery Galerist, Istanbul 2007 "Prevision.", Gallery Besiktas Cagdas, Istanbul 2008 "FREAK-BIZARRE-ASKEW-BROKEN-STRANGE", (D. Üster, B. Soyuer, A.E. Kumtepe, İ. Tokaslan, İ. Doğan, H. İldeniz) Daire Sanat , İstanbul, Curated by İ. Doğan 2009 "Contemporary Art Fair 2009", Daire Sanat, İstanbul, TURKEY 2010 "From Traditional to Contemporary", İstanbul Museum of Modern Art, İstanbul TURKEY 2010 "ShContemporary 10", The Asia Pacific Contemporary Art Fair, Ç. Cabaoğlu Art Gallery, Shangai, CHINA