Education
He trained in architecture at Bilkent University, Ankara, then graduated with an Master of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Haluk Akakce
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Akakçe"s work has appeared in the Istanbul and San Paulo Biennials, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and the Walker Art Center. Among his numerous solo shows, Akakçe has exhibited at the Process Status 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York and the Berlin KunstWerke. In November 2006, Haluk Akakçe"s The Sky is the Limit animated the 12.5 million LEDs of the enormous Viva Vision canopy on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas, a public art project in collaboration with Creative Time, the City of Las Vegas Arts Commission and the Fremont Street Experience.
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.
Haluk Akakçe is represented by Richard Taittinger Gallery in New 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 United States. presentation in nearly a decade. Come Midnight, Richard Taittinger Gallery, 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, United Kingdom (2010)
Reincarnation, Galerist and Tabanlioglu, Istanbul, Turkey (2009)
Fairy Tales Can Come True, lieutenant Can Happen to You, Galerist Tophane, Istanbul, Turkey (2009)
They Call lieutenant Love, I Call lieutenant Madness, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland.
Deitch Projects, New York (2007)
Definition, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey (2007)
The Garden, The Approach, London, United Kingdom (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 New York
Las Vegas Art Society, Las Vegas, Nevada (2006)
I wish I was.., Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany (2006)
Haluk Akakçe: Videos, Sheldon Memorial Art Museum, Lincoln, North-East (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, New York (2005)
Haluk Akakçe, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Spain (2005)
Come To Maine And The World Will Be Ours Tonight, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy (2005).
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Beck's Futures
Beck's Futures was a British art prize founded by London's Institute of Contemporary Arts and sponsored by Beck's beer given to contemporary artists.Beck's Futures was a British art prize founded by London's Institute of Contemporary Arts and sponsored by Beck's beer given to contemporary artists.