Assoc. Prof. AHMET MUSA KOÇ

Biography

Dr. Ahmet Musa Koç is currently serving as an associate professor in the Department of Visual Communication Design at the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Arts, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University. His research interests include visual ethnography, interdisciplinary art, and art education.

Dr. Koç earned his Doctorate in Art from Gazi University's Institute of Fine Arts with his thesis titled “Visual Ethnography as a Contemporary Art Practice” in 2017. He also completed his Master's degree in Vocational Painting Education at the Institute of Educational Sciences of the same university, with a thesis titled “Search for National Identity in Turkish Painting: 1930-1950” in 2013. From 2012 to 2018, he served as a research assistant in the Painting Department at Kırıkkale University's Faculty of Fine Arts. He completed his undergraduate studies in Painting Education at Selçuk University's Faculty of Education in 2008.

In addition to his personal exhibitions, Dr. Koç has participated in numerous national and international group exhibitions and has received awards in national art competitions, including those organized by Art Academy (2008), Gesam (2008), Konya Metropolitan Municipality (2007), and Ümraniye Municipality (2007). His initial solo exhibitions at the State Fine Arts Galleries in Alanya (2007) and Konya (2008) featured his explorations in geometric abstractions. These explorations evolved during his doctoral studies into a broader interdisciplinary approach that includes visual storytelling, indicating the focus of his future exhibitions.

In his solo exhibition "Silent City" (2020), Dr. Koç presented various apartment visuals manipulated through photographic techniques to reflect the neighborhood culture he explored in his doctoral studies. His subsequent exhibitions, “Missing Persons” (2022), “Portraits” (2022), and “Non-place Portraits” (2023), further illustrated the diverse states of apartment residents or modern urban dwellers, offering a narrative-like experience to the audience.