Prof Dr Balkan Naci Islimyeli  
20 September 1947    Born in Adapazari.
1967    Enters the painting department of the State School of Applied and Fine Arts.  
1972    Graduates from the same school at the head of his class.  
1973    Is accepted as a graduate assistant at the school.  
1975    Studies lithography in Salzburg on an Austrian  government scholarship.  
1977    Submits his thesis “Structure as an element of  expression in the visual arts”.  
1980-82    Does work in the painting department of the Florence Academy of Fine Arts under an Italian government scholarship.  
1983    Receives his doctorate.  
1986    Becomes an associate professor at the academy.  
1989    Does work on the subject of contemporary art in New York.  
1990    Does work at New York University upon the invitation of that institution’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern  Studies.  
1991    Wins a Fulbright scholarship and continues his work at the NYU School of Fine Arts.  
1995    Does work at Hartford Trinity College as a guest artist in the United States upon the invitation of that school.  
1996    Becomes a full professor.  
He is the head of the Balkan Naci Islimyeli workshop at Marmara University.  He has taught classes on the subjects of “Art and Design”, “Communication and Contemporary Art”, “Methods of Visual  Resolution”, “Experimental Art Workshop”, and “Visual Semiotics” at the Communications Faculty of  Maltepe University.  He is the head of the painting studio at Bilgi University.