Osman Akan                                                              

295 Clinton Avenue B14 Brooklyn NY 11205   (1) 917 353 1647        studio@osmanakan.com

 

 Selected exhibitions and commissions:

 

2011      Public art commission, site specific installation, 2012
Alaska Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory,
Andrea Noble / Visual and Literary Arts Program Director / Alaska State Council on the Arts

                 

                  “No.1”, private sculpture commission, Istanbul Turkey

 

2010       finalist, public art commission, site specific installation,
                  Public Art for The New Wishard,  Julia Moore
/ Public Art Administrator /
Blackburn Architects

 

"Le Chevalier noir" (Dark Knight) Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller (LTMH) Gallery,
 NY USA
 September 15 - November 12   curated by: Ashock Adicéam    

 

finalist, public art commission, site specific installation,
                  Civic Center Park & McNichols Building, 
              Kendall Peterson / public art manager / Denver Office of Cultural Affairs

 

2009      finalist, public art commission, Miami Dade Art in Public Places,
Jackson South Community Hospital Project  Brandi Reddick  / Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs

 

                 "Hasat", fiber optic sculpture and video projection,
   online - Istanbul Turkey October 7th 2009

                 finalist, public art commission, New Mexico State Tri-Lab,
  Chuck Zimmer / aipp program manager / New Mexico Arts

 

"Albedo", Public art commission site specific sculpture, Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver USA
Kendall Peterson / public art manager / Denver Office of Cultural Affairs

 

2008       "Harvest", fiber optic sculpture and video projection, Kasa Galeri,
 Istanbul Turkey April 2 – May 10 2008

 

2007          "The Third Bridge ", Public art commission fiber optic sculpture, Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York USA
City of New York Department of Parks and Recreation and Dumbo Arts Center

                  Clare Weiss / curator public art program / NYC Parks & Recreation

 

               finalist,  Brooklyn Bridge Underpass Lighting Competition
City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs, New York

 

2006          “Ripple”, Fiber optic installation, Franconia Sculpture Park; Minneapolis
John Hock / artistic director / Franconia Sculpture Park

 2005          “Untitled”, Video/Audio installation Dumbo Arts Festival, New York

 2004          “Implosions”, Video installation, Dumbo Arts Festival, New York

                     “HangOnDots”, Virtual sculpture and etchings, (The ides of March)
    ABC NoRio; New York

“Untitled”, Photo etching of a video animation, (Concours)

 The Art Students League of New York, New York

 

2002          “Claustrophonic”, Audio installation, (The ides of March)

                    ABC NoRio; New York

 

1999          “post{c}enter”, A/V installation (Critical Studies Gallery) CalArts

“Untitled”, Mixmedia installation (Map Show) Beyond Baroque; Los Angeles,

 

 Publications and awards:

                 

                  Korgül, Rana "New York'ta bir Türk sanatçı Osman Akan"

Hillsider Magazine,          July 2010 No: 59, p/53-58  

 

                  Amirsadeghi, Hossein "Unleashed" Thames & Hudson  ISBN-13: 978-0500977026

                 

                  Kasa Galeri, "Kasa'da on yıl"  February 12 2010, p/306-307 ISBN: 978-605-4348-01-5

 

                  Sivri, Sezin "New York sokaklarında onun izi var" Posta Gazetesi,   August 23 2009, p/7

 

                  Aksoy, Yasemin "Türk olsan da gel!" Maison Francaise,    August 2009 - p/35

                 

Individual Artist Grant   New York State Council on the Arts NYSCA. New York, 2007

 

                  "New York celebrates art in the parks", Sculpture Magazine,   December 2007 - Vol. 26 No.10, p/ 12

 

"The Third Bridge", The New York Sun,   October 15 2007 - cover page

Zimmer, Amy  “Open spaces for art”, Metro New York,   October 3 2007 - p/04

                  “Art in the Parks”, The New York Times,   September 27 2007

 

                  Viveros-Fauné, Christian "The Third Bridge" exhibition brochure,   September 2007

                  Fellowship Jerome Foundation 2006

 

                  Kun, A. Zeynep “Osman Akan ”, Trendsetter Magazine,   2004 - No: 07, Vol. 03, p/22

 

                  Akkam, Alia “Under a bridge, a span of styles” Daily News, 2004/10-14, p/52

 

 

Education:

 

Master of Fine Arts 1998     Critical Studies and Integrated Media

California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) Valencia, California

 

Bachelor of Fine Arts 1994   Graphic Design,
Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey

 

Additional education activities

 

Printmaking 2004    The Art Students League of New York

Courses in Interactive Media 1996      ArtCenter College of Design Pasadena, California

TV and Video courses 1995   New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) New York, New York

 

Workshops and lectures: 

 

Instructor Katharine Gibbs School, Digital Filmmaking and Multimedia Department, New York, 2000-2008.  Full-time course load included: Animation, GameDesign, ComputerGraphics, DigitalCompositing, Advanced Lighting. 

 

Instructor performed a 3 day workshop on advanced lighting and rendering.
Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of Visual Communication Design, Istanbul/Turkey 2003

Instructor, visiting artist "music in contemporary culture/music and popular culture" course focused on examination of local identities from the global perspective of sound and music. Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of Music, Istanbul/Turkey 2003