Yaş:

41

City/ District:

İstanbul / Eyüp

Phone:

0536 441 28 33

E-mail:

hicaz83@hotmail.com

ÇELİK was born in Istanbul in 1983 and completed his secondary and high school education at Alibeyköy High School (2000). His artistic life began when he took up painting with the painter Sabir Mehdiyev, whom he had met in high school. In 2003, he began his university education at Marmara University, Fine Arts Faculty, Traditional Turkish Handicrafts Department. While continuing his painting studies during his school years, Çelik was introduced to the arts of illumination, miniature and kalemişi, and he actively practiced them by taking part in various projects. After giving painting lessons to prepare students for fine arts exams in a private institution in 2006-2007, he produced kalemişi, gold leaf and painting artworks in private properties and hotels. Between 2010 and 2012, he carried out kalemişi restoration at Ertuğrul Tekkesi, the Egyptian Consulate, Süleymaniye Mosque and Fatih Mosque; and in 2013 he carried out painting in the Okçular Tekkesi. He worked as an art teacher at Fatih Public Education Center between 2012 and 2014. Çelik took part in various international and national projects, and participated in many group exhibitions of painting and miniature arts. He is currently working as a painting teacher at Hasan Nail Canat Art Academy, which he had started in 2014. Since 2016, he has been giving miniature courses at Fındıkzade ISMEK Center of Turkish and Islamic Arts, and at Marmara University, Fine Arts Faculty, Traditional Turkish Handicrafts Department as a lecturer. Çelik continues his master’s degree on the art of illumination at Sakarya University, and produces individual artworks.