Kadir Akyol has 14 personal exhibitions and has partıcıpated in more than 200 national and international biennials, triennials, symposia, project exhibitions and auctions workıng wıth in painting, installation, video and performance.
Kadir Akyol, born 1984 in Mardin, Turkey.
Akyol is a visual artist who dedicates most of his work to colourful and detailed portraits. Akyols most recent work focuses on the representation of mythical and historical figures covered by a thin layer of a delicate floral pattern with a mastery of volume and depth. In his canvases elements of popular culture, traditional life, popular and modern painting, lyricism and irony come side by side in dynamic harmony. Akyol has developed an ability to create trendier anachronistic portraits with an overwhelming sense of greatness, purity and modernism. Hereby he takes part as a name that is attractive for emerging generations in the field of portrait.
Akyol completed his Fine Art Degree in Mersin University in 2008 and his postgraduate Master degree in Ankara Gazi University in 2011, with a thesis on ‘Hybrid Approaches in Contemporary Art’. He later went on to study his second postgraduate degree in the Faculty of Fine Arts in the University of Sevilla, Spain, where he continues to pursue and work on his thesis titles ‘Hacker Art’.
In 2013, Akyol was named the ‘RH+ Art Magazine the Young Artist of the Year’, adding to his long list of art awards. Since then, Akyol has started a doctorate in Duzce University Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture in the department of painting.
Kadir Akyol has held 14 solo exhibitions and has participated in more than 200 national and international biennials, triennials, symposia, project exhibitions and auctions, in the fields of painting, installation, video and performance. His works have been exhibited in a number of countries including Spain, Italy, France, Greece, Belgium, Germany, Romania, Moldova, Kosovo, Tanzania, USA, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and Montenegro.
EXHIBITIONS
2021 – “Contex Art Miami”, Gallery Gama, Miami, ABD
2021 - "volume I", Gallery Aura Art Hub,Istanbul / TURKEY
2021 - "İAAF", Gallery Gama,Istanbul / TURKEY
2021 - "BAAF" Gallery Gama, Bodrum / TURKEY
2021 - "Contemporary Istanbul" Gallery Diani, Istanbul / TURKEY
2021 - "Art Contact Istanbul" Tabularasa transnational art, Istanbul / TURKEY
2020 - "İAAF", Istanbul / TURKEY
2019 - "glance” SK Art project , Istanbul / TURKEY
2019- Artexpo Newyork, H&M Art Gallery, Newyork, ABD
2018 - "selection of" Orange Blossom U.P.S.K, MKM Beşiktaş Contemporary Art Gallery, Istanbul / TURKEY
2018 - "Contemporary Istanbul international Art Fair " Group Media, Istanbul / TURKEY
2018 - "World Art Day", the Archaeological Museum of Mersin, Mersin / TURKEY
2018 - "Contemporary and Modern", Curator: Ronny filtration, Ron Art Gallery, Istanbul / TURKEY
2017- Los Art / Artforum Gallery Symi / South Aegean Symi / GREECE
2017 "Color and Young" Curator: Bester GÜRSU, Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ankara / TURKEY
2017 - III. Contemporary Art Fair Artankara, Curator: Sevil Dolmacı, Ankara / TURKEY
2016- Imago Mundi, Pratt Institute New York / ABD - Venice Biennial showcasing 38, Venice –lTALY
2016 - "International Contemporary Artists 2016" Skoufa Gallery Mykonos, Athens /GREECE
2016–“Beyond the Time”, Curator:Beste GÜRSU, National Museum of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA