Born in 1964, Akman works and lives in Istanbul. After his graduation from the Mechanical Engineering department at METU, he was trained in the studio of Azerbaijani State Artist, Honorory Member of Russian Art Academy Associate Prof. Teymur RZAYEV and started his painting education at the Fine Arts Faculty of Yeditepe University in 2013. Currently, he continues to work on his master’s thesis on “figurative expressionism and portrait abstractions” with Prof. Ergin İNAN at the same university.
