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Kutluğ Ataman

Kutluğ Ataman was a Turkish film director, painter, cinematographer, photographer, video artist and screenwriter (born 1961).

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Kutlug Ataman in Russe, Bulgaria, 14 May 2006.

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Identity

Kutluğ Ataman studied at University of California, Los Angeles. The recorded working language is Turkish.

Places of work recorded in the authority are California.

Work by Kutluğ Ataman is recorded in the collections of Tate, Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Distinctions recorded are Golden Orange Best Film Director Award and Abraaj Group Art Prize.

Kutluğ Ataman is recorded as having received Golden Orange Best Film Director Award and Abraaj Group Art Prize.

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Life and career

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  1. 1961

    Kutluğ Ataman was born in 1961 at Istanbul.

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  • Istanbul
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Recognition and collections

Kutluğ Ataman received Golden Orange Best Film Director Award and Abraaj Group Art Prize.

Literature

Literature

Once more with feeling: Performing the self in the work of Gillian Wearing, Kutluğ Ataman and Phil Collins, Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), The, 2013. Aesthetics of self-scaling: parallaxed transregionalism and Kutluğ Ataman's art practice, Cultural Critique Through the Detour of Art, 2025.

  • Ataman, Kutlug, Oxford Art Online, 2011

  • Zafer Ataman Toprak Factoring Genel Müdürü, İktisat İşletme ve Finans, 1996

  • Zafer Ataman Toprak Leasing Genel Müdürü, İktisat İşletme ve Finans, 1996

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Scholarly footprint

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