Güneş was born in 1968 and lives & works in Istanbul. Having completed his Master at Marmara University, Fine Art Faculty, Department of Painting in 1992, he works across different disciplines such as installation, painting, video art, mail art, street art, sculpture and photography. He exhibits his works internationally, nationally, and in regional museums and galleries. He also curated the Audio-Video Art Festival "Obsession" in 2005 and “Visitors” International Video Art Activity in 2010.
He has published a variety of books such as “Cruises”, “New York and Cheving gum” ,“Street Art”.
Şinasi Güneş is based in Istanbul, Turkey
Selection of Exhibitions
2013 - ArtUP! – Media Art in Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey Exhibition PARABOLE, Sofia, Ruse, Plovdiv, Varna, Bulgaria
2011 - MORE THAN BODİES, Transvideoplay, Valencia, Spain
2010 - The Road To Contemporary Art Fair, Roma, Italy
2010 - “Video’Appart” Paris-Dubai Biennial, Dubai
2009 - Switch Project, Tipperary, İreland
2009 - Exhibition “Truth” in Pispala Contemporary Art Centre, 4. Pirkanmaa Trianeli, Tampere, Finland
2009 - Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece
2008 - “Turkish Realities: positions in contemporary photography from Turkey”, Frankfurt, Germany
2008 - 1st Canakkale Biennial, “Transparent Illusions”, Canakkale, Turkey
2007 - 44th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, Antalya
2007 - Stuttgarter Film Festival, Stuttgarter, Germany
2006 - Darklight Festival, Dublin, Ireland
2006 - "Inport" Video - Performance Festival, Tallinn, Estonia
2005 - Arte Nuevo InteractivA'05: Bienal Internacional Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico
2005 - 15th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, Brasil
2005 - "Obsession" International Audio-Video Art Festival, İstanbul, Turkey
2005 - Detroit International Film and Video Festival, Detroit, USA
2004 - " ARTIADE Olympics of Visual Art ", Athens, Greece
Solo Exhibition
1999 - The Individual Exhibition of Simulation, Navigation Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
1999 - The Individual Exhibition of Painting and Installation, Fine Arts Galery of Goverment, Istanbul, Turkey
Awards
2009 - Bluebanana Video Contest, 2.Award, Landau, Germany
2006 - Luksuz Film Festival, The best educational movie, Krsko, Slovenia
2000 - 20th Awards of Performance in The Exhibition of Artists on Nowadays, İstanbul, Turkey
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