Fatih Başbuğ
Painter · b. 1979, Ankara
Painter and Professor of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Akdeniz University, Antalya.
Fatih Başbuğ studied art education at Niğde University (2000) and taught art in state schools and at TED Konya College until 2003, when he joined Selçuk University as a research assistant; there he completed his MA (2005) and PhD (2009) in art education. He has taught at Nevşehir University and, since 2013, at Akdeniz University, where he directed the Institute of Fine Arts from 2014 to 2017. From 2017 to 2020 he chaired the Painting Department at Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University in Bishkek.
Between 1998 and 2017 he held seventeen solo exhibitions in Turkey, Kyrgyzstan and the United States, and he has taken part in more than three hundred group and juried exhibitions and received twelve awards for painting. In 2017 he received the Grand Prize of the open-air painting competition at the UNESCO International Painting Festival in France. His works are held in private and public collections.
Selected solo exhibitions
All exhibitions- 2017Anadolu'dan Görünümler (Views from Anatolia), Olbia Art Gallery, Antalya
- 2016Views, ATASC, San Diego, USA
- 2016Görünümler (Views), 12th International Lycia/Kaş Culture and Art Festival, Kaş
- 2014Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Bishkek
- 2014Ziraat Bank Kuğulu Art Gallery, Ankara
