Mustafa Karyağdı

b. Konya, 1961

He graduated from the Fine Arts Academy, Painting Department in 1985. The artist, who tackles the image as a visual text in art practice, has had nine solo shows and he was granted four awards. He was granted four awards. He participated to over 100 group exhibitions. He was invited to be enrolled in many evaluation committees for painting competitions. He worked as a lecturer at the Painting Department of the Marmara University.

Still working as a lecturer at Yeditepe University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Plastic Arts, the artist aims to reveal both image and change of image in perception in conceptual manner in his work and turns to a kind of self-analysis with the image he considers as a visual text. Since conventional subjects in his works are iconographies known, familiarised and adopted by the audience, they allow an artistic investigation, the audience to question himself/herself, and to examine artistic taboos. His works are primarily based on an act of "analysis-synthesis" and "disassembly – re-assembly".

SOLO SHOWS

2013 EMPOZeT, Galeri/Miz, İstanbul, Turkey

2011 Suret, Kare Sanat Galerisi, İstanbul, Turkey

2009 Renk-Form II, Galeri Artist Çukurcuma, İstanbul, Turkey

2008 Renk-Form, Galeri Binyıl, İstanbul, Turkey

2006 “Su gibi...”, Mor Sanat Galerisi, İstanbul, Turkey

2004 İmgeler II, VII Sanat Galerisi, İstanbul, Turkey

2004 İmgeler, Galeri Binyıl, İstanbul, Turkey

2002 Dalga/s, Galeri Binyıl, İstanbul, Turkey

2002 Galeriler İstanbul Asya’da: Galerilerin Seçimiyle Günümüz Sanatı, ‘’Post-Modern-Post’’,

Marmara Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi Galeri, Galeri Binyıl, İstanbul, Turkey 1993 51 İş, BM Çağdaş Sanat Merkezi, İstanbul, Turkey

GROUP SHOWS

2019 Contemporary İstanbul, Piramid Sanat’s Booth, İstanbul, Turkey

2015 Maddenin Halleri 3, Armaggan Art & Design Gallery, İstanbul, Turkey

2013 “Unutmamak”, MKM, İstanbul, Turkey

2011 A Selection from Turkish Contemporary Art, Baku

2011 Şehvetin Tadı, Piramid Sanat, İstanbul, Turkey

2009 NOW NEW: Yeni İşler, Yeni Mekan, Proje 4L Elgiz Çağdaş Sanat Müzesi, İstanbul, Turkey

2004 Sanat Akmerkez’de I-II-III-IV-V, İstanbul, Turkey

2004 Bayburt Baksı Müzesi için 123+2 Sanatçı, 123+2 Yapıt “Şaman Güncesi”, Baksı Müzesi, Bayburt, Turkey 2000 Günümüz Sanatçıları, 20. Yıl Retrospektif Sergisi Devlet Güzel Sanat Galerisi, İstanbul, Turkey