Serdar Arat was born in Istanbul in 1955. He graduated from the Faculty of Administrative Sciences at Boğaziçi University in 1977. He completed his higher education at the State University of New York in Albany in 1984. His first solo exhibition was held in New York in 1986. Since then, he has had many solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in various cities in the US.
Apart from engaging in painting, Arat also designed stage decors for theatrical performances by Virginia Woolf and George Büchner between 1990 and 1993. In 1992, he received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation award. In the same year, he won the first prize in painting at the 4th Asian-European Biennial in Ankara. He also received a painting award in the Woodstock School of Art national Painting Exhibition.
He served as a faculty director and curator of the Osilas gallery at the Faculty of Fine Arts of New York Concordia College for 16 years. His works can be seen in the collections of University Museum at Albany, the Robert College in Istanbul, the Pfeizer and Metromedia collections in New York, the Central Bank Contemporary Art Collection in Turkey, and on the walls of Bayındır Hospital, Ankara and the Conrad Hotel in Istanbul.
Currently, Arat serves as a curator of the Wedeman Gallery in the Yamawaki Arts and Culture Center. He also builds arts programming both within and beyond the curriculum at the Department of Art and Graphic Design of Lasell College in New York.
Reference: galerinev.com, smsu.edu, lasell.edu
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