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Fatih BaşbuğPainter, Professor
Fatih Başbuğ

About

Portrait of Fatih Başbuğ: bearded, in a grey T-shirt, looking to the side in front of a wooden door with geometric carving.
Fatih Başbuğ, 2023

Fatih Başbuğ was born in Ankara in 1979. He graduated from the Department of Art Education at the Faculty of Education, Niğde University, in 2000, and from 2000 to 2003 taught art in state schools and at TED Konya College. In 2003 he was appointed research assistant at the Faculty of Education, Selçuk University, and completed his MA (2005) and PhD (2009) at the university's Institute of Social Sciences.

In 2010 he joined the Faculty of Fine Arts at Nevşehir University, and in 2012 he became associate professor of painting. Since 2013 he has taught in the Department of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Akdeniz University. He directed the university's Institute of Fine Arts from 2014 to 2017, and from 2017 to 2020 he chaired the Department of Painting at Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University in Bishkek. He became a full professor in 2018.

Between 1998 and 2017 he held seventeen solo exhibitions. He has taken part in more than three hundred group and juried exhibitions in Turkey and abroad and received twelve awards for painting. In 2017 he won 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.

He writes on Turkish painting, the painters of the Turkic world and art education. He has edited Ulakbilge Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (since 2013) and Akdeniz Sanat Dergisi (2013–2017).

Education

  • 2021–2025BA, Philosophy · Faculty of Open and Distance Education, Istanbul University
  • 2005–2009PhD, Art Education · Institute of Social Sciences, Selçuk University
  • 2002–2005MA, Art Education · Institute of Social Sciences, Selçuk University
  • 1996–2000BA, Art Education · Faculty of Education, Niğde University (today Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University)

Selected awards

  • 2017Grand Prize · UNESCO International Painting Festival, France, open-air painting competition
  • 2015Second Prize · Türk Eğitim Sen painting competition “What the Çanakkale Victory Evokes in Its Centenary, and National Sovereignty”
  • 2009First Prize and Special Jury Prize · Fırat University Painting Competition
  • 2008Honourable Mention · 6th International Painting Competition of the Üsküdar Municipality, “Istanbul Reflected on Canvas from Çamlıca”
  • 2008Achievement Award · 2nd Ahmet Yakupoğlu Painting Competition, Dumlupınar University
  • 2008Special Jury Prize · 1st National Painting Competition “Respect for Works and Labour”, Directorate-General for Copyright and Cinema, Ministry of Culture and Tourism
  • 2007First Prize · Ahmet Yakupoğlu Painting Competition, Dumlupınar University
  • 2007Achievement Award · Painting Competition in Memory of the Gallipoli Campaign (Gallipoli Memorial Club, Gelibolu Memorial Ltd. and Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University)
  • 2004Honourable Mention · Konya Metropolitan Municipality painting competition “City and Environment”
  • 2003First Prize · Konya Metropolitan Municipality painting competition “Peace and Environment”

Exhibitions

Seventeen solo exhibitions and a selection of group exhibitions