Emir Furkan Tekkalmaz was born in Eskişehir on July 15, 1997. He began his painting education at Eskişehir Fine Arts High School in 2011.

He began studying at the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in September 2015.

During his university education, he studied in the studios of Prof. Nedret Sekban and Dr. Ahmet Umur Deniz. As an elective applied workshop, he also studied lithography printing. He also studied fresco, sgraffito, and secco techniques in the fresco workshop; leaded and mosaic techniques in the stained glass workshop; and engraving in the engraving workshop. He worked as a student assistant in the fresco workshop between September 2019 and March 2020. He graduated from the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in August 2020 with a 3.41/4.00 GPA. He began his master's degree in Painting at the Fine Arts Department of the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in September 2023.

In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge used innovative scientific techniques to photograph images of a horse in motion, thus pioneering the birth of cinema. Similar to Muybridge's attempt to capture movement by dividing time into segments, my paintings depict the figure's successive rhythmic phases of movement. Thus, I attempt to depict space within time and to capture the aesthetics and dynamism of the movement the figure performs in a single frame.

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35, 100x80 cm, Pencil, Charcoal, Acrylic on Canvas, 2025