Muzaffer Malkoç's first works were copies, made from reproductions of Leonardo and Picasso before he had learned to read or write. They established what would become a lifelong interrogation: how images work, what they claim to show, what they conceal, and who they serve.
Born in Istanbul, Malkoç built a parallel career as a creative director in advertising, accumulating over fifty awards before turning his attention to the systems of representation he had spent decades mastering. The trajectory from image-maker to image-critic forms the structural logic of his practice.
He holds an MA in Turkish-Islamic Art History from Marmara University, where his research into sacred architectural form laid the foundations for an ongoing inquiry into visibility, identity, and cultural memory. He is a faculty member at Istanbul Medipol University and continues studies in French Literature at Istanbul University.
His work spans painting, installation, photography, and digital media, and has been shown at AKM Istanbul, Beşiktaş Modern, Darphane-i Amire at Topkapi Palace, and Istanbul State Fine Arts Gallery, among other venues. His current body of work, Biyometrik, examines the distance between a face as measured and a face as known.
Malkoç lives and works in Istanbul.