Erkan Özdilek

Why does a living being pursue consciousness and itself. What are these mental impulses that spread through time. To decode the ciphers of things that complete itself? From today backwards, from those days to today, and I will try to briefly enter into an analysis about the future and my dreams. The process with an uninterrupted experience lasting until today (from the 1968s to 2022). The impulse of sentences in my memory; consciousness repeating time today. Images carried to today, metaphorical languages come rushing rushing. This carrying began in the years 1968; the years I started education in 1977 at Istanbul State Applied Fine Arts Higher School. 1982 working with Prof. Ergin İnan. During education, restoration works of historic waterfront mansions on the Istanbul Bosphorus in 1978-79. Paris in 1986. I had the opportunity to meet artists like Sol Lewitt, Bruce Nauman, Nam Jun Paik, Dan Flavin. 1987-92 my assistantship years at Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty. I did printmaking (Lithography, metal engraving, serigraphy etc.) works with Prof. Mustafa Aslıer for eight years. In the following years I completed the master's program and proficiency in arts program and gave Basic Art education to all departments of the Fine Arts Faculty until today. During the years I was doing proficiency in arts, my teacher Prof. Nermi Uygur with his extraordinary language and expression built a structure in my mind that would affect my entire art life. It was the years I made my first installation at Hagia Sophia (1991) a work made from handmade paper pulp in dimensions of 300x400cm and there were three large-scale monochrome red canvases. Over thirty personal exhibitions, over a hundred national and international exhibition participations. I received my first scholarship in 1988 in Salzburg at Lithowerkstatt with Prof. Otto Werner, In 1991 I did metal engraving works with Prof. Eva Mösenneder for the second time. In the same years meeting with Prof. Emilio Vedova. Simultaneously I made my second installation at Hagia Sophia. 1992 The first of the utopias was a life ring to the Maiden's Tower, wings were to be attached to the Galata Tower in the east and west directions. 1993 "Encounter" Austrian-Turkish artists, Painting and Sculpture Museum

1959 Born in Kayseri, Yeşilhisar. 1982 Graduated from State Applied Fine Arts High School Painting Department (M.Ü.G.S.F.). 1988 Became Research Assistant at M.Ü.G.S.F. Graphics Department. 1988 Sommerakademie (Austrian Government Scholarship) Salzburg, Austria 1990 Sommerakademie (Austrian Government Scholarship) Salzburg, Austria 1991 - 1993 Completed "Master's Degree" program at M.Ü. Social Sciences Institute. 1994 - 1996 Participated in artist residence programs in Düsseldorf and Berlin with German government scholarship and produced projects. 1993 - 1996 Completed "Proficiency in Arts" program at M.Ü. Social Sciences Institute. 1988 - 1993 Served at Graphics Department Original Printmaking Workshop. 1993 - 1997 Served in Graphics Department Basic Art Education. Continued his faculty position in Basic Education Department Basic Art Education Main Art Branch which he started in 1998. He provided basic art education to Painting, Ceramics, Interior Architecture, Industrial Product Design, Cinema Television and Textile departments respectively. 2001 Produced projects for 4 months as an invitee of Vienna, Austria Ministry of Culture (at Artist residence). VIENNA, AUSTRIA. 2007 Implemented a program under the title "Dreaming with Paper" in M.Ü.G.S.F. International Summer Academy program. Valide-i Atik Complex Üsküdar ISTANBUL. 2007 Served as deputy head of M.Ü.G.S.F. Basic Art Education Main Art Branch. 2007 - 2008 Taught drawing courses at Okan Unv. Fashion Design department. 2008 Conducted M.SÜ.G.S.F. International Summer Academy program coordination.- Valide-i Atik Complex Üsküdar. 2007-2009 Master's thesis supervision and jury membership at M.Ü.G S F Domain.(3 theses.) 2009 '' LIGHT AND FORM'' Basic art education dept. student exhibition organizing committee. 2010 ''COLLAGE'' exhibition organizing committee. 2010 -2012 M .Ü. G .S. Faculty Faculty Board Membership. 2011 M Ü G Arts Institute thesis supervision and jury.(Özlem Gök.) 2 2011-2012 M Ü G S F Entrance exams jury membership.

1985 Turkuvaz Art Gallery, Ankara 1990 "Point of Movement" Gallery BM, Istanbul 1991 "A letter for Hagia Sophia" Hagia Sophia Museum, BM Contemporary Art Center Organization, Istanbul 1993 "A work for Hagia Sophia" Hagia Sophia Museum, BM Contemporary Art Center Organization, Istanbul 1998 "Love and Movement" , Atatürk Cultural Center 1998 "Caps and Heads" , Atatürk Cultural Center 1999 İzmir Istanbul line Adnan Franko Art Gallery, İzmir 2000 Kaş Art Gallery, Istanbul 2001 "Istanbul Istanbul İMKB Art Gallery 2004 Gallery Artist, Fulya, İstanbul 2004 Bodrum Underwater Archaeology Museum, Haluk Elbe Art Gallery , Bodrum 2004 "Mother of Pearl Alphabet" Galeri d'Art de la Rue Française, İstanbul 2004 Gallery Art Production, Ankara 2005 "Painting Forbidden" Vakko Beyoğlu Art Gallery, İstanbul 2005 Dissolutions "three dots", www.erkanozdilek.com 2007 "Eco Lines" Under controction,Tepe Contemporary Art Center, İstanbul 2008 "Coz-a"Garage Of Art Art gallery, İstanbul 2009 ''MAYA''Garage of Art-İSTANBUL 3 2016 ''Coming with light''Galetea Art Gallery İstanbul. 2016 ''READ''Arnavutköy Art House İstanbul. 2019 majı art gallery .''TENDON'' 2019 EgeaArt HONOR ARTIST.Atatürk Cultural Center.İzmir. GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1979 New Trends Exhibition' DGSA, Istanbul 1982 'Contemporary Artists Exhibition' RHM, Istanbul 1982 State Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Istanbul 1983 'Contemporary Artists Exhibition' RHM, Istanbul 1984 Abdi İpekçi Painting Exhibition AKM, Istanbul 1984 DYO Painting Exhibition, Istanbul 1984 Tiglat Young Artists Exhibition, Istanbul 1988 Contemporary Artists Exhibition RHM, Istanbul 1988 Sommerakademie Sallzburg, Austria 1990 Palette Art Gallery, Eskişehir 1990 Sommerakademie, Salzburg-Austria 1990 Gallery BM-AKM, Istanbul 1993 'Encounter' 12 Art from Austria and Turkey, RHM, Istanbul 1994 'Orient Express' Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 1995 Painting and Conceptual Trends in Contemporary Turkish Art 2' , Koç Unive