Sasan Rad

Born in 1980, Sasan Baheri Rad studied Painting at Azad University before completing his MA and
PhD in Painting at Hacettepe University in Turkey, where he focused on the theme of visual traces of the
unpredictability of the subject.
In his works he often examines what lies behind daily struggles through amorphous - abstract structures, using
painting and lately printmaking, often in series format. “I see them on the bases of physics and I focus on
subject in state of existence and nonexistence in order to open other dimensions where we can read our reality
and ego”.
In the latest works color is a rare sighting. The series of paintings display a variety of composition and moods
around the subject of chaos and irregularities. Black is the dominant part of works such as in the work, Torn
out Universe, 2016. Each square is a symbol of order and is a heavy, durable and stationary form that connects
four points becoming a chessboard to ease of our understanding around a complex order. Black exists in the
presence of its own contrasts restraining chaos and opening up for a new understanding of a fertile “dark”.
The chaotic and destabilizing nature of his home country, Iran, and revolution and war that impacted the country
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2008 B.A in Painting / Art and Architecture / Azad University

2012 M.A in Painting / Fine Art / Hacettepe University

2018 Phd in Painting / Fine Art / Hacettepe University

2020 Solo Exbition Balconnection Efes, İzmir, Turkey
2019 Group Exbition Vehbi Koc Foundation, Turkey
2018- There is No Other Me, Group Art Exhibition, Ankara Contemporary Arts Center
2018 Shaken Image, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2018 Solo Exhibition, Peristyle Gallery, Neuchatel, Switzerland
2018 Entropy-Solo Exhibition, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
2016 Eternity-Solo Exhibition, Art Depo, Istanbul, Turkey
2014 Group Exhibition, TepeArt, Istanbul, Turkey
2013 Grop Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery, Eskisehir, Turkey
2012 Solitarty, Tüyap Artİst, Istanbul, Turkey
2011 Disorientation, Tüyap Artİst, Istanbul, Turkey
2009 Group Exhibition, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
2003 Group Exhibition, Central Gallery, Tahran, Iran
2002 Group Exhibition, Gallery of Haft Samar, Tahran, Iran
2002 Group Exhibition, Tehran Gallery of Lale, Tahran, Iran