Kutluğ Ataman

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Kutluğ Ataman (born 1961 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish contemporary artist and filmmaker, whose pieces in photography and video art have won him much critical praise.

[edit] Biography

Openly gay himself, Ataman's work often explores sexual identity and gender. In 1997 he filmed Turkish opera diva Semiha Berksoy, and his piece Women Who Wear Wigs featured four Turkish women - a revolutionary whose face remained obscured, well-known journalist and breast cancer survivor Nevval Sevindi, an anonymous devout Muslim student, and an activist and transsexual prostitute.

He was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1961 and graduated in 1985 with a BA in Film from the University of California. He completed his MFA in 1988. As of 2004 he lives and works in Istanbul, London and Barcelona.

Ataman was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2004 for his contribution to the Istanbul Biennial 2003, and for various exhibitions in 2003-2004. He received the "Best Director" award for the film İki Genç Kız at the 2005 Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.

Ataman is currently working on "The Coat", a feature film he has written and will direct, for Scala Productions. Although the project has run in to many difficulties and lost several partners along the way, the film is scheduled to begin production in early 2007.

[edit] Filmography

Director:

• Karanlık Sular (1993)
• Lola + Bilidikid (1999)
• The 4 Seasons of Veronica Read (2002) (V)
• İki Genç Kız (2005)

[edit] External links

• Kutluğ Ataman at the Internet Movie Database

• Kutlug Ataman.co.uk
• Observer article on Ataman
• Kutluğ Ataman at Lehmann Maupin Gallery
• De-regulation with the work of Kutluğ Ataman Exhibition at MUHKA Antwerp from 17.03-28.05.2006

Awards
Preceded by Uğur Yücel	Golden Orange Award for Best Director 2005 for İki Genç Kız	Succeeded by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

v • d • e Golden Orange Award for Best Director Halit Refiğ (1964) · Atıf Yılmaz (1965) · Memduh Ün (1966) · Yılmaz Duru (1967) · Yılmaz Duru (1968) · Ertem Eğilmez (1970) · Muzaffer Aslan (1971) · Atıf Yılmaz (1972) · Nejat Saydam (1973) · Ömer Lütfi Akad (1974) · Şerif Gören (1975) · Atıf Yılmaz (1976) · Zeki Ökten (1977) · Atıf Yılmaz (1978) · Erden Kıral (1981) · Ömer Kavur (1982) · Zeki Ökten (1983) · Atıf Yılmaz (1984) · Sinan Çetin (1985) · Atıf Yılmaz (1986) · Ömer Kavur (1987) · Ömer Kavur (1988) · Halit Refiğ (1989) · Halit Refiğ (1990) · Yavuz Özkan (1991) · Tunç Okan (1992) · Erden Kıral (1993) · Yavuz Özkan (1994) · Canan Gerede (1995) · Tunç Başaran (1996) · Ferzan Özpetek (1997) · Ömer Kavur (1998) · Nuri Bilge Ceylan (1999) · Derviş Zaim (2000) · Zeki Demirkubuz (2001) · Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2002) · Ömer Kavur (2003) · Uğur Yücel (2004) · Kutluğ Ataman (2005) · Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2006) · Fatih Akın (2007)