Prof. İSMAİL ÖZGÜR SOĞANCI

Biography

Ismail Ozgur Soganci was born in Turkey in 1974. After graduating from the

department of art education at Gazi university in Ankara, capital city of Turkey,

he worked as an art teacher in various levels of Turkish schooling system for

two years until he was awarded the International Graduate Scholarship by the

Turkish Ministry of Education in 1999. In the frame of this scholarship, Soganci

completed master and doctorate degrees at Arizona State University in the field

of art education. In 2005, he started teaching at Anadolu University in Turkey.

His recent research concentrates on links between teaching and various modes

of visuality along with historical and cultural constructs that shaped them. His

artistic work often focuses on various modes of pictorial representation in

traditional formats such as drawing, oil painting and book art.