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Cengiz Çekil was born in Bor in 1945. After graduating from Gazi Institute of Education in Ankara, he went to Paris to study at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1975, he held his first solo exhibition “Réorganisation pour une Exposition” in the basement of a café in Paris. Çekil returned to Turkey in 1976 and completed his master′s degree in Sculpture at Ege University in Izmir. In 2010 his first solo exhibition in Turkey, curated by Vasıf Kortun, was held at Rampa Gallery. Çekil has participated in noteworthy exhibitions in Turkey and abroad. From 2001 to 2007, he served as Dean of Faculty of Fine Arts at Dokuz Eylül University. Since 2007, he has worked as a faculty member at Beykent University in Istanbul. Çekil currently lives and works in Istanbul.
Awards:
1988, Achievement Award for “9th Contemporary Artist of The Year" exhibition, Istanbul
1970, Ministry of Education Overseas Artistic Scholarship
Selected exhibitions:
2013,"Signs Taken in Wonder: Searching for Contemporary Istanbul," MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna
2012, “NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights,” Mechelen
2011, "I m Still Alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing,” MoMA, NY
2010, "Cengiz Çekil," Rampa Gallery, Istanbul (solo)
2009, “What Keeps Mankind Alive?,” 11th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
2009, "The School, The Work, The Family, Gallery Nova," Zagreb
2009, "Made in Turkey," Ernst Barlach Museum, Wedel
2008-2009, "What Time Is It?," Yapı Kredi Kazım Taşkent Art Gallery, Istanbul (solo)
2006, "3rd Generation of Artists Graduated From Gazi University," Contemporary Art Centre, Ankara
2005, "1200 Watches," Gallery X, Istanbul (solo)
2004, “...With All Due Intent,” Manifesta 5, San Sebastian
2004, "Love It or Leave It," 5th Centinje Biennial, Centinje
2003, "In The Georges of The Balkans," Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
2002, "40 Years: Fluxus and After," Kunstsommer, Wiesbaden
2001, "Modern Turk: Turkish Art at the Second Half of The 20th Century," Topkapı Palace Museum, Istanbul
2001, "Look Again," Proje 4L, Istanbul
1999, "Waxings," Iletişim Art Gallery, Izmir (solo)
1995, “Orient-ation,” 4th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
1967, State Museum of Painting and Sculpture, Ankara
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