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Burhan Kum was born in Istanbul in 1962. While he drew caricatures in Mikrop, Çivi and Cumhuriyet newspaper, he finished Darüşşafaka High School. He then studied Computer Science at Istanbul Technical University between 1981 and 1983 but quitted school and went to Holland to study Plastic Art. Kum entered the Dutch Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1984 and graduated from the Painting Department in 1989. He founded his workshop in Amsterdam. He had his first solo exhibition in Baku Fine Arts Center in 1992. He has also participated in many group exhibitions. In 1995, Kum went back to Turkey and moved to Seki village in Antalya. Currently, he continues his work in Antalya.
Solo Exhibitions:
1992, Baku Art Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
1998, Gallery Oda, Istanbul
2000, "Roots", Gallery Passion, Istanbul
2004, "Resmen", Karsi Sanat Calismalari, Istanbul
2005, "Suret", X-ist, Istanbul
2006, "Fear versus Fear", Karşı Sanat, Istanbul
2008, "And...But...Or", Karşı Sanat, Istanbul
2010, "Format Theory", X-ist, Istanbul
Group Exhibitions and Fairs:
2005, “young expansions”, Pera Museum, Istanbul
2006, “contemporaryistanbul 06”, Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Center, Istanbul
2007, “contemporaryistanbul 07”, Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Center, Istanbul
2008, Art Asia Miami 2008 (International Asian Contemporary Art Fair)
2008, “From 1978 to 2008 - Made in Turkey”, Frankfurt, Germany
2008, “Possibilities, intuitions and speculations on 2010”, Istanbul
Reference: artxist.com, galerioda.com, karsi.com
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