Bedri Baykam - A Clean Sheet for You Mr President - History Will Judge [2009]

Bedri Baykam (born Ankara, 1957) is an internationally acclaimed Turkish artist and intellectual. 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 recognized as a child prodigy. 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 painting and film-making at the California College of Arts and Crafts, in Oakland. He had several shows in New York, California and Paris. He returned to Turkey in 1987 and has been living in Istanbul since.

[180 x 240 cm]