Galerie Lelong & Co. Paris – New York Ramazan Bayrakoğlu Ramazan Bayrakoğlu earned a degree in painting in 1989 at Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, where he still teaches. The first fabric work Doctor was exhibited in 2005 at "Voices, Growing in the Night" exhibition, curated by Necmi Sönmez, for Borusan Art Center’s launch in Istanbul. The first plexiglas work Skips was exhibited 5 years after, in 2010, at Armory Show, NY. The same year he made Fire, a Plexiglas work of a house in fire which was purchased by Istanbul Modern and is now part of their permanent collection. Exhibitions Solo show 2016 Ramazan Bayrakoğlu, Galleri Andersson Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden 2015 Restless, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France 2009 RAMAZAN BAYRAKOĞLU, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey Group show 2016 Che Vuoi? - Fantasy Screen Of Contemporary Art, ALAN Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey 2015 Young Collectors 2, Proje4L - Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey Artists in their time, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey 2014 Trace 14, Proje4L - Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey The Spirit Of Paper, ALAN Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey Young Collectors, Proje4L - Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey You Are Here, ALAN Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey 13 rue de Téhéran, 75008 Paris – France / +33 1 45 63 13 19 / [email protected] / www.galerie-lelong.com 1 Galerie Lelong & Co. Paris – New York 2013 Istanbul Modern – Bahrain, Bahrain National Museum, Manama, 2012 Battle, Power and Faith, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Turkey Dirimart Presents V, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey Istanbul Modern, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands Dirimart Presents Vi, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey 2010 Istanbul Modern Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany Istanbul Cool! What's happening in Contemporary Turkish Art now, Leila Heller Gallery, New York City, United States When Ideas Become Crime, Depo, Istanbul, Turkey 2009 Materyal Resim: : Material Picture, Operation Room, Istanbul, Turkey TAWASSOL-CONTACT, Artericambi, Verona, Italy DİRİMART PRESENTS 02, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey In Stitches, Leila Heller Gallery, New York City, United States 2008 BoysCraft, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel Save AS - Triennale Bovia, Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy 2007 Emerging German and Turkish Artists from the Elgiz Collection, Proje4L - Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey Ramazan Bayrakoglu / Tufan Baltalar - Plastic Tree - Volume 1, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey Be a realist, demand the impossible!, Karsi Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey 2005 Stimmen - Nachtdurchwachsen - Stränge, Borusan Sanat Galerisi / Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey 2004 Not the surface but itself, K2 Contemporary Art Center, Izmir, Turkey Biennial 13 rue de Téhéran, 75008 Paris – France / +33 1 45 63 13 19 / [email protected] / www.galerie-lelong.com 2 Galerie Lelong & Co. Paris – New York 2010 Port Izmir 2 - Silence_Storm, Port Izmir, Izmir, Turkey 2007 10th International İstanbul Biennial, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary: Optimism in the Age of Global War - International Istanbul Biennial, , Istanbul, Turkey Public Collection Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey 13 rue de Téhéran, 75008 Paris – France / +33 1 45 63 13 19 / [email protected] / www.galerie-lelong.com 3.