Selected Projects
2011
"No.1" , Contemporary Istanbul 2011, Leila Heller Gallery
November 24 - 27
"Harvest" , ArtBeat, Leila Heller Gallery
2010Public art commission, site specific installation, Anchorage Crime Lab Exterior
Alaska State Council on the Arts, expected 2011-2012
Project finalist, site specific installation, Public Art for The New Wishard
Blackburn Architects
"Le Chevalier noir" (Dark Knight) Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller (LTMH) Gallery, NY USA
September 15 - November 12 curated by: Ashock Adicéam
Project finalist, site specific installation, Civic Center Park& McNichols Building
Denver Office of Cultural Affairs
2009Project finalist, Miami-Dade Art in Public Places/ Jackson South Hospital Project
Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
"Hasat", fiber optic sculpture and video projection, www.galerinternet.com
October 7th 2009
Project finalist, New Mexico State Tri-Lab
New Mexico Arts a division of department of cultural affairs
"Albedo", public art commission, site specific sculpture, Denver USA
City of Denver Office of Cultural Affairs and Denver Botanic Gardens
2008"Harvest ", fiber optic sculpture and video projection, Kasa Galeri, Istanbul Turkey
April 2 / May 10 2008
2007"The Third Bridge", public art commission, Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York USA
City of New York Department of Parks and Recreation and Dumbo Arts Center
Project finalist, Brooklyn Bridge Underpass Lighting Competition
City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs. New York, 2007
2006"Ripple", fiber optic sculpture, Franconia Sculpture Park, Minneapolis USA
2005"Untitled", Video installation, DUMBO Arts Festival, New York USA
2004“Implosions”, Video installation, DUMBO Arts Festival, New York USA
“HangOnDots”, Virtual sculpture and etchings, (The ides of March) ABC NoRio, New York USA"Untitled", Photo etching of a video animation, (Concours) The
Art Students League of NY, New York USA
2002 "Claustrophonic", Audio installation, (The ides of March) ABC NoRio, New York USA
1999"post(c)enter", A/V installation (Critical Studies Gallery) CalArts, Los Angeles USA
1999 “Untitled”, (Map Show) Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles USA
1996“istif”,(Matchbook show) Art in General, New York USA
1994“Karakum”, Exhibition at the Kasimpasa Flour Factory; Istanbul,
Turkey. Grup Grip-in
(Member of the artists collaborative. The work focuses
on inter-cultural, random design issues)
Project finalist, “Salt Fish”, pari EMBALLAGE; Paris, France
Publications and Awards
Korgül, Rana "New York'ta bir Türk sanatçı Osman Akan" Hillsider Magazine
July 2010 - No: 59, p/54-58
click to view
Amirsadeghi, Hossein "Unleashed: Contemporary Art from Turkey" TransGlobe Publishing
May 17 2010, hardcover ISBN-13: 978-0500977026
Kasa Galeri, "Kasa'da on yıl"
February 12 2010, p/306-307 ISBN: 978-605-4348-01-5
Sivri, Sezin "New York sokaklarında onun izi var" Posta Gazetesi
August
23 2009 , p/7 click to view
Aksoy, Yasemin "Türk olsan da gel!" Maison Francaise,
August 2009, p/35 click to view
Senie, Harriet F. "Public Art in New York City Parks:Celebrating 40 Years" Sculpture Magazine,
June 2008 - Vol 27 No. 5, p/18-19 click to view
"New York celebrates art in the parks" Sculpture Magazine,
December 2007 - Vol 26 No. 10, p/12 click to view
"The Third Bridge" The New York Sun
October 15 2007, coverpage click to view
Zimmer, Amy "Open spaces for art" Metro New York
October 3 2007, p/04 click to view
“Art in the Parks”, The New York Times
September 27 2007 click to view
Viveros-Fauné, Christian "The Third Bridge"
exhibition brochure
September 2007
Individual Artist Grant
New York State Council on the Arts NYSCA . New York, 2007
Fellowship Jerome Foundation 2006
Kun, A. Zeynep “Osman Akan”, Trendsetter Magazine
2004 - No07Volume03, p22 click to view
Akkam, Alia “Under a bridge, a span of styles”, Daily News
2004 / 10-14, p52 click to view
“Process”, Arredamento Dekorasyon
2000 / 07-08, p50
“Salt-Fish”, Arredamento Dekorasyon
Vol
4, p108
Salt Fish “EMBALLAGE 94”, pari EMBALLAGE; Paris, France
1994, pari EMBALLAGE handbook - 8, p33
Workshops and Lectures
Instructor Katharine Gibbs School, Digital Media Communications Department,
Digital Filmmaking and Multimedia Department, New York, 2000-2008.
Workshop Instructor performed a 3 day workshop on advanced lighting and rendering.
Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of Visual Communication Design, Istanbul/Turkey 2003
Lecturer, visiting artist "music in contemporary culture/music and popular culture"
course focused on examination of local identities from the global perspective of sound and music.
Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of Music, Istanbul/Turkey 2003
Instructor conducted several workshops on digital imaging and principles of computing for writers.
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, 1998
Education
Master of Fine Arts 1998
Critical Studies and Integrated Media
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) Valencia, California
Bachelor of Fine Arts 1994
Graphic Design, Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey
Additional education activities
Printmaking 2004The Art Students League of New York
Courses in Interactive Media 1996 ArtCenter College of Design; Pasadena, California
TV and Video courses 1995 New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)