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MEHMET YILMAZ
Mehmet Yılmaz (b. 1963, Mut/Mersin) Turkish artist, writer, academician.

Life
The artist graduated from the Department of Painting in Gazi University (1987); received the degrees of Master of Fine Art (1989) and Sufficiency in Art (equal to PhD, 1993) both from Hacettepe University. Between 1990-2003, he gave the courses of Painting, Sculpture and Contemporary Art in the department of Music and Fine Art in ODTÜ (Middle East Technical University). Then, he was honoured with the title of Professor in Mersin University in 2004; started to work in the Fine Art Faculty, Gazi University, 2006.

He opened his first solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures (1982) before he started to study arts. Since then he has held numerous personal exhibitions; was invited national and international group events; has been awarded 15 times in Turkey.

Yılmaz worked on political series as Images from New World Order, Fragments in my Memory, Window and My Confined Side from 1980’s to the early 2000’s. Then, the artist focused an autobiographical work on the mutual connotations of forms and concepts such as External as Stranger to its Internal and Jinsexual Things; produced paintings and videos in the concept of Indecent for Unfavourable, 2006-2011. He worked on the series of Twins reckoned the whatness of painting through certain images made by hand and machine, 2011-2013; then, started to work on Friends series related to the problems of identity and the whatness of art. Friends later became the parts of the series of Heymimres.

Awards
4th Prize (Mersin National Education Directorate, 1981); 3rd Prize (Manisa Culture Directorate, 1983); Special Jury Prize (Adana Governorship, 1983); Honorable Mention (TPAO, 1984); 1st Prize (Kastamonu Governorate, 1984); 1st Honorable Mention (GU Rectorate, 1985); Award (DYO, 1989); 1st Award (1990, AÇS); 1st Prize (Ahi Evran, Ministry of Culture, 1991); Award (DYO, 1991); Award (TPAO, 1991); 3rd Prize (AÇS, 1991); Honorable Mention (AÇS, 1993); Award (Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, 1998); Artist of the Year (Arts Foundation, 2018).

Books
Art of Sculpture/Heykel Sanatı; Art from Modern to Postmodern / Modernden Postmoderne Sanat;  Postmodern Conversations or Reading Artists / Sanatçıları Okumak ya da Postmodern Söyleşiler; Indecent for Unfavorable / Sakıncalı Çünkü Edepsiz (Conversation with Ayşe Nahide Yılmaz); Photography is Picture / Fotoğraf Resimdir (Guest writers: Marcus Graf, Cebrail Ötgün); Heymimres – Dialectics of Whatness and Identity / Nelik ve Kimliğin Diyalektiği; Sculpture – Lump in Space / Heykel – Mekândaki Yumru ; Art and Concepts / Sanat ve Kavramlar (with Ayşe Nahide Yılmaz).

Editing
Intergenerational Conversations / Kuşaklararası Söyleşiler; Philosophy of Art

and Art of Philosophy / Sanatın Felsefesi Felsefenin Sanatı; Contemporary of Art

and Art of Contemporary / Sanatın Günceli Güncelin Sanatı.

Translation
Jean-Paul Sartre, Essays on Aesthetics / Estetik Üstüne Denemeler; Dore Ashton (Ed.), Picasso on Art / Picasso Konuşuyor (with Ayşe Nahide Yılmaz); Marcus Graf, "From Wholeness to Fragmentation / Bütünlükten Parçalılığa" (in Art History Aesthetics / Sanat Tarih Estetik, Ed. A. Nahide Yılmaz); Jean-Paul Sartre, "The Venetian Pariah / Venedikli Mahkûm", (in Art History Aesthetics / Sanat Tarih Estetik, Ed. A. Nahide Yılmaz); Jean-Paul Sartre, "The Quest for the Absolute / Mutlağın Peşinde" (in Art History Aesthetics / Sanat Tarih Estetik, Ed. A. Nahide Yılmaz).

Reference
mehmetyılmazmehmet.com