Haluk Akakçe (born 1970 in

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

) is a contemporary artist living and working in

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and Istanbul whose work explores the intersections between society and technology through video

animation Animation is a method by which image, still figures are manipulated to appear as Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent cel, celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited ...

s, wall paintings and

sound installation Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary medium or material. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in hybrid forms. According to Brandon LaBelle, sound art ...

s. He trained in architecture at

Bilkent University Bilkent University ( tr, Bilkent Üniversitesi) is a private university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by Prof. İhsan Doğramacı in 1984, with the aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research. It is constan ...

, Ankara, then graduated with an MFA from The

School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which grew into the museum and ...

. Akakçe's work has appeared in the

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

and

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s, the

New Museum of Contemporary Art The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-named New Scho ...

in New York and the

Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, t ...

. Among his numerous solo shows, Akakçe has exhibited at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York and the

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KunstWerke. He was shortlisted for the

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award at the

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in London in 2004. In November 2006, Haluk Akakçe's ''The Sky is the Limit'' animated the 12.5 million

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s of the enormous Viva Vision canopy on

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in downtown

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, a public art project in collaboration with

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, the City of Las Vegas Arts Commission and the

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. At 8 p.m. each evening that month, the entire street was plunged into darkness before Akakçe's animation began to trickle across the LED surface, gradually turning the canopy into a cascade of abstractions and colors.

Gallery representation

Haluk Akakçe is represented by

Richard Taittinger Gallery Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'stron ...

in New York. In March 2015, his work was feature in the gallery's inaugural group exhibition, ''Sinthome''. In May 2015, a solo exhibition, ''Come Midnight'', was Akakçe's first U.S. presentation in nearly a decade.

Recent solo exhibition history

Source: * ''Come Midnight'',

, New York (2015) * ''Haluk Akakçe: Open Studio'', Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey (2012) * ''Love Time Garden'', Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey (2012) * ''We Invite You to Fall in Love'', Istanbul State Opera and Ballet, Galerist and TheBritish Consulate, Istanbul, Turkey (2012) * ''The Dervish'', Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland (2010) * ''Coming Home'', Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK (2010) * ''Reincarnation'', Galerist and Tabanlioglu, Istanbul, Turkey (2009) * ''Fairy Tales Can Come True, It Can Happen to You'', Galerist Tophane, Istanbul, Turkey (2009) * ''They Call It Love, I Call It Madness'', Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland; Deitch Projects, New York (2007) * ''Definition'', Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey (2007) * ''The Garden'', The Approach, London, UK (2007) * ''Moving Through the Looking Glass'', Maison Louis Vuitton Champs-Elysées, Paris,France (2007) * ''Haluk Akakçe'', Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece (2007) * ''Haluk Akakçe: Sky is the Limit, Creative Time, New York''; Las Vegas Art Society, Las Vegas, NV (2006) * ''I wish I was...'', Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany (2006) * ''Haluk Akakçe: Videos'', Sheldon Memorial Art Museum, Lincoln, NE (2005) * ''Tomorrow is Another Day'', Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany (2005) * ''Panorámica'', Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico (2005) * ''Haluk Akakçe'', Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY (2005) * ''Haluk Akakçe'', Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Spain (2005) * ''Come To Me And The World Will Be Ours Tonight'', Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy (2005)

Gallery representation

Recent solo exhibition history

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