Mustafa Hulusi (born in 1971, London, United Kingdom) is a British artist. His work is diverse and includes fields such as paintings, videos, installation and photography. [1] [2]
Hulusi was born in London to a Turkish Cypriot family. [3] [4] After graduating from Fine Art and Critical Studies at Goldsmiths College, Hulusi continued towards his master's degree at the Royal College of Art. He had his first group exhibition in 2004 called "New Contemporaries 04" and his first solo exhibition in 2005, called "The end of the West" at the Max Wigram Gallery. In 2007, Hulusi represented Cyprus at the 52nd International Exhibition of Contemporary Art of La Biennale di Venezia and had solo exhibitions at A-Foundation, Liverpool, and Max Wigram Gallery. [5] More recently, in 2009, he has also exhibited his solo shows at Patrick Painter in Los Angeles and THE PAGE GALLERY in Seoul in 2015.
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Marc Quinn is a British contemporary visual artist whose work includes sculpture, installation, and painting. Quinn explores "what it is to be human in the world today" through subjects including the body, genetics, identity, environment, and the media. His work has used materials that vary widely, from blood, bread and flowers, to marble and stainless steel. Quinn has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Sir John Soane's Museum, the Tate Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Fondation Beyeler, Fondazione Prada, and South London Gallery. The artist was a notable member of the Young British Artists movement.
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Simon Patterson is an English artist and was born in Leatherhead, Surrey. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1996 for his exhibitions at the Lisson Gallery, the Gandy Gallery, and three shows in Japan. He is the younger brother of the painter Richard Patterson.
Gavin Turk is a British artist from Guildford in Surrey, and is considered to be one of the Young British Artists. Turk's oeuvre deals with issues of authenticity and identity, engaged with modernist and avant-garde debates surrounding the 'myth' of the artist and the 'authorship' of a work of art.
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Hussein Chalayan is a Cypriot fashion designer based in Britain. He has won the British Designer of the Year twice and was awarded the MBE in 2006.
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Ruzen Atakan in Akincilar is a Turkish-Cypriot painter and the daughter of a school teacher Kemal Atakan. She graduated from Gazi University Turkey, in 1988. She has had three solo shows and took part in mixed and group exhibitions in Cyprus as well as overseas. She teaches at Fine Arts Secondary School, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Mutlu Çerkez was a British-born Australian-Turkish Cypriot conceptual artist. Çerkez was known for titling his work based upon a future date which he would remake it, although not necessarily in its original form. He represented Australia at the 6th Istanbul Biennial in Turkey in 1999, and São Paulo Biennale in Brazil in 1998.
Athanasios Argianas is a Greek and British artist living and working in London, England. Argianas' practice is interdisciplinary; incorporating sculpture, painting, text, performance and often music or sound, and concerns itself with metaphorical or translated representations of aural experiences. He received his MA from Goldsmiths College, London and previously studied under Jannis Kounellis at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.