1. Bedri Baykam studied at Sorbonne University in Paris from 1975 to 1980 and earned an MBA degree.
15 Facts About Bedri Baykam
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Bedri Baykam lived in California from 1980 to 1987, studied painting and film-making at California College of Arts and Crafts, in Oakland.
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Bedri Baykam returned to Turkey in 1987 to live in Istanbul.
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Bedri Baykam played tennis throughout the 70s placing well at the Turkey Tennis Championships.
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Bedri Baykam had solo exhibitions in many countries, in addition to participating in group shows.
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Bedri Baykam wrote a controversial novel The Bone, published in December 2000.
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Bedri Baykam refers to this book as "The most detailed autobiography ever written on earth" and compares himself to Mozart.
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Bedri Baykam is a pioneer of the Neo-Expressionism movement and of multimedia and photo-painting political art.
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Bedri Baykam is one of the founders of the UNESCO-AIAP-IAA International Association of artists Turkish National Committee.
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Bedri Baykam was a candidate for the Presidency of this Party in October 2003.
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Bedri Baykam is one of the most outspoken defenders of Kemalism.
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Bedri Baykam founded and directed the monthly art magazine Skala between 2000 and 2002.
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Bedri Baykam writes for the daily Cumhuriyet, and art and political magazines.
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Bedri Baykam showed at Alphonse Berber Gallery and Broadway Gallery.
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Bedri Baykam is the founder of the film production and publishing company Piramid and Piramid Art Center, both based in Istanbul.