Graphic & Design, Guitar, Ex Libris, Painter, Illustration and Photo Artist 

He was born in 1985 in Samsun. He was gratuated from Samsun Ilkadım Anatolian Fine Arts High School in 2003. He completed his bachelor’s degree in 2007 in the department of painting teaching in Ondokuz Mayıs University. Because he predominantly took painting lessons during his high-school education and aimed to develop himself in the many fields of visual arts, he preferred to continue his education in the department of graphic design in the university and he took graphic education in the atelier of Ass. Prof. Dr. İbrahim Halil Türker. He improved his career as taking AdobePhotoshop, AdobeIllustrator, Adobe Flash and 4D Cinema (Modellem) lectures from Halil Türker. He took both painting learning and graphic education and he intended to produce artistic works by combining these two actually interrelated fields. In addition to all of these, he took wood engraving lectures from Ass. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Aydın Kaptan, the printing artist. Moreover, he worked with the ex libris artist Tezcan Bahar as he had a passion for ex libris art in 2007.

Since 2007, he has been preparing logotype business cards, catalogues, institutional identities etc. for many companies and design and typographic for some periodicals. Furthermore, he designed many books’ covers published by Musical Education Publishing House.

In 2010, he became a postgraduate student in the department of painting in Ondokuz Mayıs University. He has been working as a grapher and designer in Ondokuz Mayıs University Distance Education Center since 2010 and he has been preparing medical illustrations used in medical courses.

He has been awarded 11 prizes in the international printing and painting contests organized in Poland, China, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Russia, Mexico and Turkey. Many of his works were chosen to be placed in 27 catalogues and exhibitions.

Musical Life

Apart from his painting education, he has been playing classical guitar since 2000. He became interested in Flamenco music in 2005 and he improved himself in playing Flamenco music with guitar in addition to playing classical western music. He has been studying guitar and musical works with Kadir Özal since 2000. At the moment, he is working on Flamenco music with the Flamenko guitarist Ruben Diaz who is a student of world-wide-known Flamenco guitarist Paco De Lucia. Since he likes music archieving, Şengün has made a broad archieve in the types of Classical Music, Jazz, Blues, Flamenco and Opera since 2000.

He now continues his artistic workings and postgraduate education.