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Bedri Baykam is a Turkish artist, author, and political activist. He is best known for his abstract paintings, which often feature bold colors and geometric shapes. He has also written several books on art and politics, and is a vocal advocate for human rights and democracy in Turkey. Baykam was born in Ankara, Turkey, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul. He has exhibited his work in numerous galleries and museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Istanbul Modern in Istanbul. Baykam is also a prolific author, having written over 20 books on art and politics. His books include "The Art of the Possible: A Political Manifesto for the 21st Century" and "The Art of Democracy: A Visual Guide to the Political Process". Baykam is a vocal advocate for human rights and democracy in Turkey. He is a founding member of the Human Rights Association of Turkey, and has been a vocal critic of the Turkish government's human rights record. He has also been an outspoken critic of the Turkish government's policies towards the Kurdish population. As of 2021, Bedri Baykam's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.

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Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 26 April 1957
Birthday 26 April
Birthplace Ankara, Turkey
Nationality Turkey

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Who Is Bedri Baykam's Wife?

His wife is Sibel Baykam (m. 1997)

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Bedri Baykam Net Worth

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2018

As of 2018 he had authored eighteen books, five on art (one in English), and eleven on politics. Monkeys' Right to Paint (published in Turkish and English), documents the plight of non-western artists and criticizes the western art establishment for its western-biased art history. Baykam wrote a controversial novel The Bone, published in December 2000. A turn of the Century novel it ranged through sex, death, philosophy of new sciences, technology and spying, It is claimed to have predicted the attacks of September 11. The Bone was published in English in 2005.

2000

Baykam founded and directed the monthly art magazine Skala between 2000 and 2002. He writes for the daily Cumhuriyet, and art and political magazines. He frequently wrote for the left-wing Turkish Left. He heads the Patriotic Movement. He showed at Alphonse Berber Gallery and Broadway Gallery.

1997

He married journalist Sibel (Yağcı) Baykam in May 1997, and they had a son, Suphi, in January 1999.

1995

Between 1995 and 1998, he was an elected member of the Party Assembly of the Social Democrat "Republican People's Party". Baykam was a candidate for the Presidency of this Party in October 2003. He is one of the most outspoken defenders of Kemalism.

1980

Baykam is a pioneer of the Neo-Expressionism movement and of multimedia and photo-painting political art. Beginning in the 1980s, he directed 16 mm short films and has acted in Turkish feature films.

1975

Baykam studied at Sorbonne University in Paris from 1975 to 1980 and earned an MBA degree. During this time, he studied drama in L'Actorat, Paris. He lived in California from 1980-1987, studied painting and film-making at California College of Arts and Crafts, in Oakland. He returned to Turkey in 1987 to live in Istanbul.

1957

Bedri Baykam (born 26 April 1957) is a Turkish artist.

1921

Baykam published a two volume autobiography. In it he claims that as a child he was seen as "the creator of the 21st century school of art". Baykam claims that he was compared to artists like Klee, Matisse, Dufy, Saul and Steinberg. He refers to this book as "The most detailed autobiography ever written on earth" and compares himself to Mozart.