An installation, collage, conceptual and cinema artist and teacher, Balkan Naci Islimyeli was born in Adapazari in 1947. In 1967, he entered the Painting department of the State School of Applied and Fine Art. He graduated from the same school in 1972. In 1975-1977, he studied lithography in Salzburg with an Austrian Government scholarship and submitted his thesis "Structure as an element of expression in the visual arts".

He received Italian Government Scholarship and studied in the Painting department of the Florence Academy of Fine Arts in 1980-82. He received his doctorate in 1983. He became an associate professor at the academy in 1986. In 1989-1990, he went to New York to work on the subject...