ASKIN AYRANCIOGLU

Personal Info

He was born in a village Baglica town in Boyabat in Sinop. He went to primary school in the village. Then he finished boarding secondary and high school in Eskişehir. He graduated from Art Faculty in Samsun 19 Mayıs University. He has been working on art, photograph, caricature, graph and criticism since 1987. His first critic book “Yuzunden Dusen Bin Umut” was published in 2000 and his child novel “Sanat Yolu-1/Yatili Okuldan Gecen Yol” was published in 2005. He opened his first personal art exhibition in Baglica village against protesting artists who never leave from big cities for public. His own personal opening ceremony was made by a village boy.He also opened a lot of personal and mixed art, caricature and photograph exhibitons in Sinop, Samsun, Çorum, Ordu and Istanbul. He began caricature to join Abdi İpekçi competition in 1987. He won nearly 80 prizes in caricature competitions. Also 30 of those prizes were international prizes. His caricatures were published in personal and mixed exhibitions, newspapers, albums and magazines in Turkey and also abroad. Besides his caricature woks take part in museums in Yugoslavia, Cyprus, Turkey, Romania, USA, Japan and Italy. HIS SOME PRIZES 2007-Topict “Global Warming” International Guangxi City College Cartoon Contest - “Gold Medal” – CHINA 2007- International Olimpic Cartoon Contest “First Prize”- CHINA 2007- International Pernambuco (FIQH) Cartoon Contest “Honorable Mention ”- BRAZIL 2008- Corum Tail of Journalist 2nd International Cartoon Contest “First Prize”- TURKEY 2008- Cartoonet International Cartoon Contest “Honorable Prize”- IRAN 2008-1st International Manisa Mesir Cartoon Contest “Jury Private Prize”- TURKEY 2008- İrancartoon international “Gazze” Cartoon Contest “honorable prize”-IRAN 2010- 18. international Daejeon cartoon contest “Best Cartoon Prize”- South KOREA 2010- 30. İnternational Nasreddin Hoca Caricature competition “Special Prize”- TURKEY 2011-Second Master Cup International Illustration Biennial “Excellent Prize”-CHINA 2012- 2. international Gold Panda cartoon and illustration contest “Special Prize”- CHINA 2012- 5. İnternational Molla Nasreddin Cartoon Contest “Gold Medal”-AZERBAIJAN 2012- 21. international Daejeon cartoon contest “Best Cartoon Prize”- South KOREA 2013- S.Demirel Üniversity international cartoon contest “Success Prize”-TURKEY 2013- Izmir international cartoon contest, “Third Prize”-TURKEY 2013- Association of Izmir Bosniak, international cartoon contest “First Prize”-TURKEY 2013- 22. international Saejeon cartoon contest “Best Cartoon Prize”- South KOREA 2013- Institute of Secondary Education of Spilimbergo, Fax for Peace/Fax for Tolerance international cartoon contest “Success Prize”- İTALY 2014-10. International Fair Play Cartoon Contest “Cafer Zorlu Special Award”-TURKEY-2014