Caner Karavit

Hello all! My name is Caner Karavit. I was born in Edirne and raised in Ankara. Currently, I live in Istanbul.

Journey of my artistic outlook could be periodized in two stages. First, the contemporary art-related performances, paintings and printmakings that I executed with domestic and foreign art groups. This period corresponds to my higher art education at Istanbul Fine Arts Academy. In both group performances and individual works, the influence of the Western contemporary art, that I was provided during my art education, was intense. The themes of my Western-style contemporary art works were contributed by the layers of the cultural geography in which I was raised.

Second stage is deeply affected by the Chinese art, on which I had education from 2007 on in China. During the first years of my presence in China, in Tsinghua University that I worked with a scholarship, I studied woodcut which is one of the oldest arts in China. In following years, I did research on Chinese Buddhist art and took lectures from Liu Hanshi who is a renowned Chinese painting master. These works and studies of mine rendered me with a comparison between the Western and Eastern art, and a synthesis of them both. Studying both of the artistic waves...

1986 B.A. in Graphics, Mimar Sinan University (Istanbul) / M.A. in Graphics, Mimar Sinan University (Istanbul)
1990 Research Assistant in Mimar Sinan University (Istanbul)
1995 PhD at Fine Arts Faculty, Mimar Sinan University (Istanbul)
2009 Professor in Department of Basic Art Education , Fine Arts Faculty, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (İstanbul)
2013-2015 STUDYING PRACTICES ON TRADITIONAL CHINESE LANDSCAPE PAINTING FROM MASTER LIU HAN SHI. BEIJING / PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

1997 Second Bitola Printmaking Triennale - Bitola/MACEDONIA
1998 International Kanagawa Printmaking Triennale - Kanagawa/JAPAN
2000 First Biennale of Smallscale Printmaking Lilla Europa 2000 - Hallsberg, Örebro/SWEDEN
2003 International Cairo Print Trienniale - Cairo/EGYPT
- Solo Exhibitions
1992 Caner Karavit Solo Printmaking Exhibition - Taksim/Istanbul/TURKEY
2001 Memory Collages Solo Printmaking Exhibition - Bir Art Gallery, Istanbul/TURKEY
2007 Solo Exhibition - Pristine/KOSOVO
2017 Caner Karavit Solo Printmaking Exhibition - Amden/SWITZERLAND
2018 “Master Silk Road” Painting Exhibition - Bogazici University, Istanbul/TURKEY

-Select Group Exhibitions
1985 Viking Printmaking Exhibiton - İzmir and İstanbul/TURKEY

1991 52nd State Printmaking Exhibition- Atatürk Center for Culture, Ankara/TURKEY

1993 “Installaroman” Exhibition: "Leyla and Mecnun" - Taksim/Istanbul/TURKEY
1993 26th Dyo Painting and Printmaking Exhibition - İstanbul, Ankara and İzmir/TURKEY
1995 The Exhibition of Mimar Sinan University Graduates - New York/USA

1997 "'Introspection" Group Exhibition - Atatürk Center for Culture, Istanbul/TURKEY
1998 The Painting Exhibition of Mimar Sinan University Alumni Association - Almaty/KAZAKHSTAN
1998 59th State Printmak...