Haluk Akakçe
1970 Born in Ankara, Turkey
Lives and works in New York.
Education
1993 BFA, Bilkent University, Ankara
1995 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Trustee Merit Award, MFA Scholarship
1996 The American Institute of Architects Chicago Award – First place, AIA Chicago
1997 MFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2003 Delfina Studio Trust Award, London
Selected Exhibitions
2010
Istanbul Cool! What’s happening in Contemporary Turkish Art now, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York
From Istanbul They Come, Kappatos Gallery, Athens
Le Meilleur des Mondes, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
The Dervish, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich (solo)
Coming Home, Alison Jacques Gallery, London (solo)
2009
Reincarnation, Galerist and Tabanlioglu, Istanbul (cat.) (solo)
Istanbul Traversee, Lille 3000, Lille
Istanbul Modern Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
In praise of Shadows, Benaki Museum, Athens
Supernova, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (Wales)
In Praise of Shadows, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul
Fairy Tales Can Come True, It Can Happen to You, Galerist Tophane, Istanbul (solo)
2007 – 2008
Maison Louis Vuitton, Paris (solo)
2007
They Call It Love, I Call It Madness, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
Definition, Galerist, Istanbul
The Garden, The Approach, London
Moving Through the Looking Glass, Maison Louis Vuitton, Champs-Elysées, Paris
Haluk Akakçe, Bernier/Eliades, Athens
They Call It Love, I Call It Madness, Deitch Projects, New York
2005
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2004
The Approach, London
Massimo De Carlo Gallery, Milan
Galerist, Istanbul
Nougeras/Blanchard, Barcelona
Beck’s Futures
Institute of Contemporary Art, London(catalogue)
Memory and Landscape La Casa Encendida, Madrid (catalogue)
Expander,Royal Academy, London (catalogue)
Open House
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY(catalogue)
Territories Straylight, Dublin
Mutaciones Cinematicas CAAM, Las Palmas Gran Canaria
2003
Art Now-Light Box, Tate Britain, London
Massimo de Carlo Gallery, Milan
The Moderns Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin(catalogue)
Art Unlimited Art Basel 34, Basel (catalogue)
Renderings Delfina Studio Trust, London
Animations Kunst-Werke, Berlin (catalogue)
Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflatable Structures Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago (catalogue)
Drawings Massimo de Carlo Gallery, Milan
Penitencier de Valere Son et Art Contemporains, Dolmen Production, Sion
Nano Fraîch’Attitude Gallery, Paris (catalogue)
Organized Conflict Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art
a delicate balance – Film Installation together with Sarah Morris, Darren Almond, Paul Morrison and Craig Kalpakjian
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
The Drawing Room, London
Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel
Cosmic Galerie, Paris
New Work Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York
2002
Still Life Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens
New Work Platform Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul
Blood Pressure Galerist, Istanbul
The Measure of All Things The Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh
Centro Nazionale per le Arti Contemporanee, Rome
Media City Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (catalogue)
Urban Creation Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai (catalogue)
25th Anniversary Selections Show The Drawing Center, New York
Out of Site New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (catalogue)
Metropolitan Iconographies XXV Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil(catalogue)
The Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres and Inflatable Structure AXA Gallery, ICI New York (catalogue)
Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
Fair Royal College of Art, London (catalogue)
2001
Blood Pressure Centre d’Arte Contemporain, Geneva
New Work Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
The Measure of All Things Kunst-Werke, Berlin
Blood Pressure Deitch Projects, New York
The Measure of All Things PS-1, New York
2000
Coming Soon Henry Urbach Architecture, New York
DNAid Billboards Creative Time, New York
Strange Paradises Casino/Luxembourg Forum d’Art Contemporain (catalogue)
Dusk 1-20 Gallery, New York (catalogue)
1999
The Passion & The Wave 6th International Istanbul Biennial (catalogue)
1998
Selections The Drawing Centre, New York
La Jalousie, video installation MFA exhibition Gallery 2, Chicago