Kemal Önsoy (b.1980)

Kemal Önsoy graduated from Istanbul State Applied Fine Arts High School Painting Department in 1980. Between 1990-1993 he continued his studies in New York. Önsoy held his first exhibition in Istanbul in 1979, and later took part in various exhibitions in Italy and Brazil. The artist, who uses the traces left by the living conditions of societies and people as the material of his art, wanders in overlapping layers in his works. Önsoy, who moved his workshop to New York for a while, is currently working in Istanbul.