Education
1976 – 1978 Master of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI Major: Painting, Sculpture & Interdisciplinary Studies Minor: Music
1966 – 1971 Bachelor of Fine Arts, The School of Fine & Applied Arts, Istanbul, Turkey Major: Painting – Architectural/Environmental Painting & Sculpture
Grants and Awards
2015 Digicom Film Festival Palm Springs, California Received an award for a short film “Like Tomatoes” depicting his teaching of an art class.
1999 Phillip Hulitar Award Juried by James Demetrion, Director Hirshorn Museum, Washington, D.C. Sixtieth Annual National Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting Society of the Four Atrs, Palm Beach, FL
1999 Juried, First Prize – Painting Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, FL
1999 Award of Excellence Founder’s Exhibition, Naples Art Association, Naples, FL
1999 Best of Show Boca Raton Museum Art Guild Exhibition, Boca Raton, FL
1998 Best of Show – Painting Cape Coral Art League, Cape Coral, FL
1998 First Prize – Oil Painting Naples Art Association Annual, Naples, FL
1997 First Prize – Oil Painting Ernest Hemingway Festival, Art Competition, Sanibel Island, FL
1977 Best of Show – Painting Big Arts, Sanibel Island, FL
Grants
(Summer & Fall) Sculpture Media Research Milwaukee Graduate School, University of Wisconsin1976
Painting Award – National: Presented to the Top Ten Artists in the Country Turkish Radio and Television Union1971