General Information

First Name

Meliksah

Last Name

Soyturk

Username

meliksah-soyturk

Work Experience

Job Title

Art professor

Company

Kingsborough C college

Date Started

17/01/2017

Biography

Biography

  Meliksah Soyturk is a modern topographic painter. He studied science education and Art. He opened 42 exhibitions in six different countries including Turkey, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, and the USA. With his contemporaries, he attracts the audience by the individuality and nature of his paintings, using black pencils, and technical pencils. He developed new art styles and he taught his methods to his students. Most of the awards he received was for his novel ideas and techniques in art education. He has been invited to give speeches at schools and universities. At his exhibitions and conferences, he also talked with the audience one on one to draw a short-term or long-term roadmaps for students for successful art training. His other lectures include Science and Art, and Leonardo da Vinci’s Unknowns. Soyturk believes that Art should help people become closer to goodness, and paintings should encourage societies to live in kindness and faith. By drawing with the only tool he needs, he not only creates works that are esthetically valuable, but also draws attention to successful sources for getting acquainted with the history, especially in Istanbul and New York. Currently, Soyturk lives in New York and is teaching his art techniques.