İsmail Tetikçi

İsmail Tetikçi was born in Erzurum in 1972. In 2000 Tetikçi graduated from Atatürk University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, ranking first in the Department of Painting and second in the faculty. The same year Tetikçi began working as a crafts and art teacher at a Ministry of National Education primary school in Erzurum. In 2002 Tetikçi completed the master’s program of the Department of Painting at Atatürk University’s Faculty of Fine Arts and began the doctoral program in the Department of Art History at the same university’s Institute of Social Sciences. Having started work the same year as a research assistant in the Department of Basic Education at Atatürk University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, Tetikçi began Proficiency in Art studies in 2005 in the Painting Program at the Institute of Social Sciences of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (MSGSÜ/GSF), and worked as a research assistant in the Department of Painting. In 2010 Tetikçi completed Proficiency in Art (doctorate) studies with the written thesis “Batı Anlayışına Dönük Türk Resim Sanatında Doğa-İnsan İlişkisi.” After serving as an assistant professor at Atatürk University’s Faculty of Fine Arts from 2010 to 2015, Tetikçi was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Fine Arts Education at Uludağ University’s Faculty of Education in 2015. Tetikçi received the title of associate professor in 2018 and continues academic and artistic work. Tetikçi has received seven awards in national and international competitions, held eight solo exhibitions, served on the juries of three painting competitions, and taken part in more than 100 group exhibitions.