Rahmi Aksungur, who graduated from Mimar Sinan University (İstanbul Fine Arts Academy), Sculpture Department in 1979 with a merit bonus, has taken many sculpture-monument and sculpture awards, participated in many national and international personal and group shows since the first year of the Academy. In 1983 he completed his sufficiency in arts program on sculpture art and in 2000 he appointed to a professorship. Between the years 2002 – 2006 Prof. Aksungur worked as the Dean of Fine Arts Faculty in MSGSU and between 2006 – 2010 as the Rector of >Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. The artist, whose sculptures and monuments are displayed in many public and private spaces and been in several museum and private collections, had ten solo shows since 1988. Rahmi Aksungur lives and works in İstanbul.