Koray Ariş (born in 1944) is a Turkish sculptor. He graduated from Şadi Çalıks atelier at the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts. He is known for his abstract sculptures made from metal, wood, leather and other materials which have earned a special place in Turkish sculpture.

Biography

Ariş was born in 1944 in

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, Turkey. He graduated from the atelier of Şadi Çalık at the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts sculpture department. Between 1969 and 1971 he worked in the sculpture atelier of Emilio Greco of the Rome University of Fine Arts. He founded his own atelier in Rome and then later in

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and has participated in many personal and collaborative exhibitions. His first solo exhibition was in Rome a year after when he opened his studio there in 1971. In the following years his works were displayed in many cities in Europe including

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and Belgrade. He returned to

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in 1975 where he started to teach at the Fine Arts Academy. After two years he quit left the Academy which is when he opened his Istanbul studio. For more than 25 years his works have been exhibited regularly in Istanbul and

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. In 2001 he designed masks for the

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dance group/show which travel with the show around the world since then. The exhibition "Memory and Scale: 15 Artists of Modern Turkish Sculpture” at

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included works by Ariş.

Personal exhibitions

*1972 Galleria La Nuova Pesa, Rome *1973 Galleria L'indiano,

*1976 DGSA Osman Hamdi Salonu,

*1980 Galeri Bİ-Ze, Istanbul *1985 Maçka Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul *1986 Galeri Nev,

*1988 Maçka Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul *1991 Galeri Nev, Ankara, Istanbul *1994 Galeri Nev, Istanbul *1998 Akbank Aksanat Galerisi, Istanbul

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aris, Koray 1944 births Living people People from Adana Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul alumni Rome University of Fine Arts alumni Turkish male sculptors Academic staff of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University