Kemal Tizgöl born in Balıkesir 1973, artist and academic, lives and works in Antalya. He participated in several symposiums, biennials, workshops and group exhibitions mostly in Europe, US and Far East.
Currently his works are in many private and institutional art collections in Turkey and abroad. His works took part in some books such as “500 Ceramic Sculpture” published by Lark Book in U.S. He has already 4 solo shows and 3 awards.
Kemal Tizgöl developed a formal and reductivist manner in his early works; later focused on real-copy, transformation of material, reproduction and the transition of meaning issues through combining clay and other materials in his artworks. His latest works searches and deals the inner situation and personal history of the artist own.
Kemal Tizgöl is currently working for as an Associate Professor at Akdeniz University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Ceramics.
SOLO SHOWS
2018 The Road/The Way/The Trace, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Tophane-i Amire Centre of Culture & Art , Sarnıç Galleries – Istanbul.
2012, Çamurdam Art Studio, Eskişehir.
2012, “The Soul of Things” Galeri Soyut, Ankara.
2006, Türkiye İş Bankası İş Sanat Art Gallery, Izmir.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016, WISH&HOPE, International Kaleiçi Old Town Festival, Antalya
2015, ISCAEE 2015, Exhibition of International Society for Ceramic Art Education and Exchange , Wuxi Craft Technical and Vocational College, Yixing-CHINA
2015, II. Istanbul Ceramic Art Days, Group Exhibition, Taksim Cumhuriyet Art Gallery, Istanbul
2013, Memento & Memory, Bahçeşehir Education Centre, Antalya.
2013, Stories of Anatolian Territory II “ Balance” , NCECA, Canal Street Gallery, Houston- US.
2013, Turkey-Korea Invitational Exhibition “Heritage and Diversity”, Hanyang University Museum, Seoul- SOUTH KOREA.
2012, “On the trail of time”, Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition, Turkish Ceramic Federation, Istanbul.
2011, “Travel in History From Pottery to Art Object…” 4th International EgeART Art Days , Izmir Archaeology Museum, Izmir.
2010, “Contemporary Turkish Ceramics”, The c2 Gallery@ the Pottery Workshop, Shanghai- CHINA
2010, “Together” Deniz Onur Erman, Enver Güner, Hasan Şahbaz, Kemal Tizgöl, Group Exhibition Ormo Art Gallery, Istanbul.
2010, “Body- Space”, Akdeniz University Olbia Art Gallery, Antalya.
2009, “12. Westerwaldpreis 2009 KERAMIK EUROPAS”, Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen – GERMANY
2009, “MAATI an Exploration of Contemporary Terracotta”, Visual Art Gallery India Habitat Centre, Delhi- INDIA.
2007, “Turkish Ceramic Art”, Tophane-i Amire Culture and Art Centre, Istanbul.
2006, “Oblikovna Likovna Radionica Plemenitas ”, Izlozbeni Salon İzidor Krsnjavi, Zagreb-CROATIA
2004, 3rd Keramik-Biennale der Stadt Kapfenberg im Keramion, Frechen-GERMANY
2002-2009, 63rd, 65th, 66th, 68th, 69th State Exhibition of the National Competition on Paintings & Sculptures, Ankara- Izmir-TURKEY
ARTIST TALK
2018, Artist Talk, “Building a Language with Ceramics”, Mimar Sinan Fine Art University, Department of Ceramic & Glass Design
2018, BASE Talks, Base Istanbul , “Catching the Contemporary with Clay” , Galata Greek School, Istanbul.
ARTIST RECIDENCY & EXCHANGE PROGRAMMES
2019, Erasmus + Staff Mobility for Teaching, Institituto Politecnici de Leiria, Escola Superior de Artes e Design, PORTUGAL
2007, Lecture and Artist in Residence, Kemijarvi- FINLAND
SYMPOSIUM, WORKSHOP & BIENNIAL
2017, 5th International Ceramic Art Symposium “CERAMIC LABARATORY” Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils-LATVIA.
2017, YUads ,Yasar University International Art and Design Symposium II, Izmir-TURKEY
2015, ISCAEE 2015, International Society for Ceramic Art Education and Exchange’s Symposium, Beijing, Jingdezhen,Yixing-CHINA
2014, MACSABAL 2014, IV. International Hacettepe University Macsabal Wood Firing Symposium, Ankara-TURKEY
2012, “II. International Gölcük Ceramic Symposium”, Kocaeli-TURKEY
2011, 6th Gyeonggi International CeraMIX Biennale 2011, International Workshop, Yeoju- SOUTH KOREA
2011, International Art Zhyzhal Ceramic Symposium, Bobruisk- BELARUS.
2007, Workshop about Raku & Pit Firing Techniques, Kemijarvi- FINLAND
2005, XII. International Plemenitas Raku Workshop, Plemenitas-CROATIA.
2003, 3. International Kapfenberg Ceramic Biennial, Kapfenberg-AUSTRIA.
2003, 1st International Contemporary Mosaic Biennial “RUMBO”, Buenos-Aires/ARGENTINA.
2002 10th International Symposium ‘Art Ceramics’, Sofia-BULGARIA.
2002, 18th International Vallauris Ceramics Biennial Exhibition, Espace Loisirs, Vallauris-FRANCE
2002, 6th Cairo International Biennial for Ceramics 2002, Cairo-EGYPT.
COLLECTIONS
2017, Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils-LATVIA.
2017, Yaşar University Art Collection , Izmir-TURKEY
2015, ISCAEE , Collection of International Society for Ceramic Art Education and Exchange , Tsing Hua University, Beijing -CHINA
2013, Hanyang University Museum, Seoul- SOUTH KOREA
2012 Turkish Ceramic Federation, Istanbul-TURKEY
2012, Kocaeli University Museum of Prof. Dr. Baki Komsuoğlu, Kocaeli-TURKEY
2011 Gyeonggi International CeraMIX Biennale, Collection of Yeoju International Ceramic Workshop , Yeoju- SOUTH KOREA
2011, Bobruisk Art Museum, Mogilev- BELARUS
2009, Delhi Blue Pottery Trust, New Delhi- INDIA
2006, Türkiye İş Bankası Art Collection, Istanbul-TURKEY.
2005, OLR Plemenitas Ceramic Collection, Lukovdol-CROATIA
2005, Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Culture, Izmir State Museum of Paintings and Sculpture, Izmir-TURKEY.
2004, KERAMION Ceramics Museum, Frechen- GERMANY.
2003, RUMBO CULTURAL ASSOCIATON, Museum of International Contemporary Mosaic Biennial, Buenos-Aires/ARGENTINA.
2002, Collection of Cairo International Biennale for Ceramics, Cairo-EGYPT.
2002, L’événement Galerie d’ Art Contemporain, Vallauris-FRANCE.
Private Collections
AWARDS
2007, 68th National Competition on Paintings & Sculptures, “Jury Prize”. Izmir- TURKEY
2002, 6th Cairo International Biennale for Ceramics 2002, “Jury Prize for Youth”, Cairo-EGYPT.
2001, 20th Turgut Pura Foundation, Painting & Sculpture Competition, “Special Prize of Ministry of Tourism”, Izmir -TURKEY