Serdar Arat http://serdararat.com served as a Prof. of Art at Concordia College-New
York from 1993 to 2017, as the Director of the OSilas Gallery from 1994-2008, and as
the Diane Heath Beever ’49 Professor of Art, at Lasell College, in 2010-2011. He is also
a visual artist, exhibiting internationally since the 1980’s, primarily in New York City
and Istanbul. Received his MA and MFA in Painting from the University at Albany,
His many public lectures include: Fakes Forgeries and Discoveries in Art, Art and
Ideology, Art of the Islamic Worlds, Price and Value in the Art World, a TEDx talk on art
and memory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvUKxHSjTHE , among many others.
His artworks are characterized by shaped paintings on canvas and wood, with
dimensional surfaces, and metaphorical images of vents, sirens, and shadows, as well
as sculptural landscapes in cast bronze and mixed media. A short documentary film,
These Paintings Cast Shadows, by Kenneth Calhoon, exploring the process of Arat’s
work was completed in 2013: http://vimeo.com/60057267 .
Arat’s more than thirty individual exhibitions include Kouros Gallery-NY City, Monique
Goldstrom Gallery-NY City, Hal Katzen Gallery-NY City, White Columns-NY City,
University Museum at Albany-NY, Galeri Nev-Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey; and more
than forty group exhibitions include Howard Scott Gallery-NY City, Art in General-NY
City, Gallery 1756-Chicago, Bronx Museum of Art-Bronx, NY, and others.
His awards and grants as an artist include Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and 4th
Asian-European Biennial Painting Award, Ankara Turkey. His paintings are included in
more than a dozen public and corporate collections.
Various writings and reviews about his work as an artist include more than 20
newspaper articles in the USA and Turkey, including Dominick Lombardi, The New York
Times, NY, September 26, 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/26/nyregion/art-
futuristic-works-that-define-dimensions-of-time-and-space.html ; William Zimmer, The
New York Times, NY, June 3, 2001; William Zimmer, The New York Times, NY,
February 18, 2001; William Zimmer, The New York Times, NY, April 10, 1988; the book
by Bill Arning, Serdar Arat 1983-1998, Galeri Nev Publications, 1998; and many others.
For more on Serdar Arat‘s work: http://serdararat.com
