serdar arat

İstanbul, 1955

Serdar Arat, graduated in 1977 from the Faculty of Administrative Sciences of the Boğaziçi University. He completed his higher education at the State University of New York in Albany. His first solo show was opened in New York in 1986, followed, in the years to come, by many other solo and group shows in various US cities. Apart from engaging in painting, Serdar Arat also designed stage decors for theatrical performances by Virginia Woolf and George Büchner between 1990 and 1993. In 1992, he was deemed worthy of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation award; the same year he won the first prize in painting at the Asian-European Biennial. As of 1993, Arat is teaching at the Fine Arts Faculty of New York Concordia College, and is, at the same time, the director of the school’s art gallery.

In addition to the collections of Univeristy Museum at Albany, and the Robert College in Istanbul, his works are represented at the Pfeizer and Metromedia collections in New York, at the Central Bank Contemporary Art Collection in Turkey and on the walls of Bayındır Hospital, Ankara and the Conrad Hotel, Istanbul.