Kanat Akar (b. 1991) is a visual artist, lives and works in Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey. Using photography and electronic media in his practice as a communication tool for the visual investigation of the human experience, he aims to tell effective stories about people in a politically and socially loaded environment that we are living in.
He earned an MFA degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Photographic and Electronic Media department, in 2018, and a bachelor’s degree from Bilkent University Department of Economics. He was the recipient of a residency at VisArts (Rockville, Maryland) until recently. His work has been on show in Washington DC and Istanbul, as well as in a number of group shows in Hungary, Italy, and the United States.
