Bedri baykam biography

Bedri Baykam is a Turkish artist.
Early life Baykam was born in Ankara, Turkey.
Bedri Baykam is the son of politician Dr. Suphi Baykam and engineer-architect Mutahhar Baykam.

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Biography

BEDRİ BAYKAM

b. Ankara-Türkiye, 1957

Bedri Baykam is one of Türkiye's internationally most well-known artists and intellectuals.

From age six until today, he has had exhibitions in Bern, Geneva, New York, Washington, Paris, London, Rome, Munich, Frankfurt, Stockholm, San Francisco, Monaco, Cannes, Berlin, Sydney and Los Angeles, to name a few.

Bedri Baykam is the son of politician Dr. Suphi Baykam and engineer-architect Mutahhar Baykam. He studied at Sorbonne University in Paris from 1975 to 1980 and earned an MBA. During this time, he also studied drama in L'Actorat, Paris. He lived in California from 1980-1987, studying painting and filmmaking at the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC, now CCA) in Oakland. He has had several shows in New York, California, and Paris. He returned to Türkiye in 1987 and has been living in İstanbul since.

He has had 151 solo shows and participated in numerous group shows. His works have been shown in museums and institutes such as Akademie der Künste (Berlin), Picasso Museum (Barcelona), Roland-Garros Museum (Paris), Pin

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Bedri Baykam

One of the most internationally well-known Turkish artists, Bedri Baykam was born in 1957, in Ankara. His father Dr. Suphi Baykam was a famous deputy in the Turkish parliament and his mother Mutahhar Baykam an architect-engineer. He started to paint when he was only two years old, and has had several exhibitions since the age of six in Bern, Geneva, New York, Washington, London, Rome, Munich, Stockholm, etc. during his childhood years, when he was known as a child prodigy, (wunderkind) throughout the world. Baykam also won prestigious titles as a tennis player throughout the 70s at Turkish Championships.

He studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris from 1975 to 1980 and got an MBA degree. During this time, he also studied drama in L’Actorat, Paris. He lived in California during the years 1980-1987, studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts, in Oakland between (1980-1983). He had several shows in New York, California and Europe in the 80’s. He returned to Turkey in 1987 and has been living in Istanbul since.

He has had 117 one-man-shows in various