Erol AKYAVAS
1932–1999, Turkey

Erol Akyavas studied at Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University) in Cleveland, Ohio for a time. His first solo show at The Art Colony Gallery (formerly in Cleveland) in 1954. He exhibited two paintings in the 1955 Cleveland Museum of Art May Show, and also exhibited at The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio (1957) and the Akron Art Museum (1957-1958). His exhibition record after that appears to be mainly in Turkey, Switzerland, Russia and England. Akyavas trained as both an architect and a painter and split his time between US and his homeland; the success of his work lays in his ability to infuse it with cultural influences from both places. He had numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Turkey and abroad. Akyavas' paintings can be seen in private and public collections such as Museum of Modern Art, New York, Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture, Ankara Museum of Painting and Sculpture, Berlin Art Museum, and the Stuttgart Art Museum.

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