Özgür Yener

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Born in 1974 to a family of a strong characteristic woman and an enlightened elementary school teacher in a united culture of Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and the Caucasus.

My childhood covered a period of difficulties in the country. It drove me to a submental desire to understand what was going on with the people in my neighborhood and those around me. Having been inspired by my father's photo studio in those years, I was shooting instances here and there, spending time in dark rooms. Much of evening times at home were times bouncing ideas about art. I often and secretly did drawings, as well, but I was never aware of how I was doing them.

At the time when the big decision came up, my brother was having high education in sculpture and my sister in painting. With their recommendations and my desire to express my findings on social and psychological issues, I too switched to fine art high education.

Although I organized a number of exhibitions nothing more than as meetings of friends or joined such organizations for being socially active and for an aim to motivate my wife who is a sculptor and teacher, and to condition my two daughters with art, o...

2005 graduate of Complutense University Fine Arts Post Graduate Programme
2001 graduate of Marmara University Atatürk Faculty of Education of Fine Arts

2022, İstanbul : "Play" /39 Art Gallery
2018, Ankara : ArtAnkara 4th Contemporary Art Fair
2015, İstanbul : "Dizin [Array]" /Düş Yolcusu Sanat Durağı [Dream Traveller Art Station] (solo)
2013, İstanbul : Turkey-South Korea Contemporary Arts Exhibition /İstanbul-Gyeongju World Culture Expo 2013
2012, K.Ereğlisi : 19th K.Ereğlisi Art Fest /Ereğli Municipality
2012, İstanbul : "Vakitsiz Vakitlerim [My Timeless (or, Ill-Timed) Times]" /Gallery Espas (solo)
2010, İstanbul : "Artist 2010" /Tüyap 20th Art Fair
2010, İstanbul : Enka Dr. Clinton Vickers Art Gallery (solo)
2010, İstanbul : "Maltepe'den Renkler [Colors from Maltepe]" /Sanat Çınarı Maltepe [Art Plane Tree Maltepe]
2009, İstanbul : Maltepe Sanat Merkezi
2008, İstanbul : The Piazza Art Gallery (solo)
2008, Ankara : Polart Art Gallery
2007, Madrid : "Silencio Abstracto [Abstract Silence]" /Galería Francisco Duayer (solo)
2006, İstanbul : "Artist 2006" /Tüyap 16th Art Fair
2006, İstanbul : "Karma-şık [Complicated], 2006" /Maltepe Art Center
2004, Madrid : "Pirotecnia [Pyrotechnics]" (alumni exhibition) /Complutense University of Madrid, Faculty of Fine Arts
2004, Reykjavík : "Endurvarp [Reflections]" (international art exhibition) /Hrafnista
2004, İstanbul : İstan...