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Born in Santa Barbara, California, Jeffrey Baykal-Rollins completed a BFA in painting and photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, and received an MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Baykal-Rollins’ artwork utilizes a variety of media including drawing, painting, photography, video, installation, performance, film, and poetry. He is the director of “Silsila,” a performance art and social sculpture collective based in Istanbul. His work has been exhibited and performed internationally, appears on the covers of dozens of books, and has been featured in the Turkish motion picture “Kucuk Kiyamet.” Having taught art at the University of California, Baykal-Rollins now teaches intermedia at Boğaziçi University and visual art at Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey, where he lives with his wife and two sons.
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