OZAN
ADAM

Ozan D. Adam studied art and cinema at Bard College for his BA, attended The New School University for his MA in Media Studies. His body of diverse artwork consists of text, design, illustration, painting, sculpture, animation, film, video and installations, which have been exhibited in solo and collective exhibitions at many exhibitions, biennials, museums, galleries and his films have won awards at international festivals around the world. He acted in films. He taught graduate and undergraduate courses at universities as a full time professor, supervised film projects and has been invited to give lectures, seminars and conferences at many institutions and universities such as Middle East Technical University, Bosphorus University, The Netherlands Institute of Higher Education, Aksanat Art Foundation and The Bauhaus Foundation in Germany. His films were in publications such as Cashier Du Cinema and he was interviewed by many film / art publications, foundations and institutions, which were published in film and art magazines, newspapers and books. He has been invited to be a jury member by universities and the award juries of film festivals. He wrote, designed and published books, curated art exhibitions and he opened his own art gallery. Many of his artworks and films have been selected, awarded and presented by festivals, galleries and museums around the world. He has been a member of the board of directors at The Film Makers’ Cooperative in New York. His works have been presented in Anthology Film Archives, Bowery Ball Room, Collective Unconscious Gallery, New Museum, Millennium Film Workshop in New York, Tate Modern Museum, Rio Cinema in London, Martin Gropius-Bau Museum, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Louvre Museum and Pompidou Art Center in Paris, National Centre for Visual Arts, Reina Sofia National Museum in Madrid, Istanbul Modern and Pera Museums in Istanbul. Ozan D. Adam marks his place in the arts and cinema with his films and artworks some of which are considered to be milestones in the history of art and cinema.