Assoc. Prof. Burak BOYRAZ

Biography

Burak BOYRAZ

Born in Istanbul, 1986.  He completed his primary and high school education in Istanbul. In 2004, he was admitted to Kocaeli University, Fine Arts Faculty, Plastic Arts Department. In the second year of his education, he was accepted to Naval Forces, 9. Traditional Painting Contest Exhibition. After he graduated in 2008, he was accepted to the master’s degree program from Yıldız Technical University, Museology Program. In 2011, he opened his first individual painting exhibition at Pera Fine Arts Gallery (Kadıköy / İstanbul). In the same year, he started Kocaeli University, Profiency in Art Program. Although he participated into too many exhibitions and arts fairs organized in and out of the country in the period he was educated in this program, he also organized mail-art activities targeting primary education school students in Turkey and Greece. His works were exhibited in 2014 at Young Activity 6 and in 2017, at Young Activity 7 (See Genç Etkinlik 6 & 7, UPSD). In the Balkan geography, he made research on panting restoration in North Macedonia (Skopje), Serbia (Belgrade) and Greece (Athens) and in Turkey, in Istanbul, Ankara and Bursa provinces. In 2017, he was awarded the Young Painter of Year granted by Mimar Sinan Fine Arts High School, Year’s Mimar Sinans, (together with Eda Su Neidik). He continues with his academic studies under the roof of Arts Department of Yıldız Technical University, Arts and Design Faculty.