Ferit Kuyas

Ferit Kuyas (Istanbul, 1955) 

Ferit Kuyas (1955) was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He studied architecture and law in Zurich, Switzerland and graduated 1982 in jurisprudence from the University of Zurich. Working mainly on personal projects, he published several books. After visiting Shanghai for commissioned work, Ferit’s travels brought him often back to China. His most recent body of work is City of Ambition with large cityscapes from the megalopolis Chongqing, China, which got published in October 2009.

Ferit’s photographs have been shown in museums, galleries and festivals in Europe, America and Asia. His work is represented in private, corporate and public collections in the United States, England, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and Turkey. He received a number of awards, among them the Kodak Photobook-Award, the Guatephoto Award and the Hasselblad Masters.

“Amidst the thousands of images we see, there are some that impact on a deep personal level. It’s like they enter your body in some way and reveal themselves to you in dreams or come to you at moments in the day when you should be concentrating on the finances, or driving the car. Ferit’s images affected me in this way. From the first time I saw them, their sheer audacity delighted me. I can meditate on it and take myself on a journey. Even if photography did die, it would never die inside me – people like Ferit have filled me up with images forever.“ - Rhonda Wilson, Rhubarb, Rhubarb
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Selected Individual Exhibitions

2011 Museumbickel, Walenstadt, Switzerland (October) 
2011 Elipsis Gallery, Istanbul (September)
2011 Gallery 291, San Francisco (February)
2011 Alliance Française, Guatemala City (February)
2010 Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Projekt Kordegarda, Warsaw, Poland
2010 Pionowa Gallery, Transfotografia, Gdansk, Poland
2010 Photogarage, Zurich
2010 Museo de Arte Moderna Carlos Merida, Guatemala City
2010 Galerie Monika Wertheimer, Oberwil, Switzerland
2010 Transphotographiques, Lille, France
2010 Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto
2010 Yokohama Photography Festival, Japan (Projection)
2009 LUX Photo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009 Galerie Monika Wertheimer, Oberwil, Switzerland
2009 Aleppo Tenth International Photo Festival, Aleppo, Syria
2009 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland OR
2009 Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
2008 Photofusion, London
2008 Fotofestiwal, Lodz, Poland
2007 Galerie Monika Wertheimer, Oberwil, Switzerland

Collections

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Ministère de la Communauté Française, Belgium
Portland Art Mueum, Portland OR
Howard Stein Collection, New York
Hoffmann-La Roche Collection, Basel, Switzerland
La Fototeca, Guatemala City
Canton Berne, Switzerland
Canton Aargau, Switzerland
Centrum Bank, Vaduz Liechtenstein
City of Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
City of Uster, Switzerland
City of Wädenswil, Switzerland
Metron Collection, Brugg, Switzerland
EWD Collection, Davos, Switzerland
NOK Collection, Baden, Switzerland
Interartes, Zurich
Private and corporate collections