Biography
He was born in Antalya in 1944. He graduated from the Painting and Sculpture Department of Ankara Gazi Education Institute. He went to Germany after winning a state scholarship for overseas specialization. He received his undergraduate and postgraduate education at the Berlin State Academy of Fine Arts – HdK, Berlin (today's Berlin University of Fine Arts). He obtained his master's, proficiency in art, and doctoral degrees from Ege University and Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir. He became an assistant professor in 1986, an associate professor in 1987, and a professor in 1994. He worked as a faculty member at Ankara Gazi Education Institute (today's Gazi University), Ege University, Dokuz Eylül University, Bilkent University, and Anadolu University. He established the Painting and Fine Arts Departments at Ege, Dokuz Eylül, and Bilkent Universities. He held various positions at these universities, including department head, faculty board membership, university senate, and university board membership. Between 1996 and 2001, he served in the Turkish Republic. He served as cultural attaché at the Embassies in Bonn and Berlin, and as ministerial advisor at the Ministry of Culture in 2001. Between 2001 and 2005, he worked as a faculty member at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Anadolu University. He established the first art studies program in Turkey, opening the Art Theory and Criticism Master's Programs at Anadolu University (2003) and Işık University (2008). In Istanbul, he served as the head of the Visual Arts Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Işık University and as the head of the Art Studies Department at the Institute of Social Sciences.
