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Nazif Topçuoğlu was born in Ankara in 1953. He completed his first Master’s degree in Architecture at Middle East Technical University in Ankara in 1978 and continued towards his second Master’s degree in Photography at the Institute of Design, Chicago in 1981. He has held various academic positions, teaching History and Criticism of Photography between 1989 and 1992 at Bosphorus University and at Bilgi University in 1999. He was also a visiting artist at Sabancı University in Spring 2007. Since the late 1970’s, Topçuoğlu has had solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions across the world. He writes regularly on the history and criticism of photography and has published three books on he subjects. Sometimes he also does advertising and editorial works. Topçuoğlu currently lives and works in Istanbul.
Collections:
JPMorgan-Chase; Marion and Guy Naggar, London; Schürmann, Germany; Sema and Barbaros Çağa, Istanbul; Fotocollectie Hoboken Erasmus University, Rotterdam; Reflex Miniature Museum of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam.
Selected exhibitions:
2007 Istanbul contemporary Art Fair-Galeri Nev
2007 Paris Photo / Flatland Gallery, France.
2007 Noorderlicht festival (international Photography Biennale) "Act of Faith" Groningen, Netherlands
2007 Photo London / Flatland Gallery , UK
2007 DFoto / Flatland Gallery, san sebastian, Spain
2007 Art Amsterdam / Flatland Gallery, Netherlands
2007 Art Rotterdam / Flatland Gallery, Netherlands
2007 Art Brussels / Flatland Gallery, Belgium
2007 Solo exhibition at Palma 12, Barcelona, Spain
2007 Art Paris / Flatland Gallery, France
2006 PRO 2006 European Reflections, Charlottenborg Copenhagen, Denmark
2006 Paris Photo / Flatland Gallery, France
2006 DFoto San Sebastian
2006 Russian Biennale of Photography, Moscow
2006 Galerie Bertin-Toublanc, Paris, France. Rendez-vous avec une femme Group Show on International Women′s Day
2006 Solo exhibition at Flatland Gallery, Utrecht, Netherlands
2006 Art Rotterdam Art Fair/ Flatland Gallery, Netherlands
2006 Solo exhibition at Galeri Nev, Istanbul
2005 Paris Photo/ Flatland Gallery, France
2005 Solo exhibition at Kunstraum-Syltquelle, Sylt, Germany
2004 11th Athens Art Fair/Galeri Nev, Greece
2004 Group exhibition: ZKM Call Me Istanbul; Karlsruhe , Germany
2004 Group exhibition: Greece-Turkey, Meeting Point; Leverkusen, Germany
2003 European Art Expo, 13-20 July, Düsseldorf
2003 Venice Biennale Turkish Pavilion
2003 Group exhibition at Galerie Susanne Hojriis, Copenhagen
2003 Solo exhibition at Galeri Nev, Istanbul
Reference: topcuoglu.com; artnet.com; Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Turkish, 4 March 2009 (London 2009), p. 43, 53 and 103. |
