Hasan Kıran was born in 1966 in Malatya, Turkey. He graduated from the Painting Department of İnönü University in 1993 and continued his studies in Germany between 1995 and 1997. In 1998, he earned a Master’s degree in Art from Hacettepe University with a thesis on Causality in Artistic Creation.
He began working as a research assistant at Yüzüncü Yıl University in 2000. In 2003, he studied traditional Japanese woodblock printing at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts. He later joined the university's PhD program in printmaking and was awarded the Rotary Education Scholarship. In 2008, he received his PhD with a dissertation titled Visual Thesis on Shamanistic Images.
From 2009 to 2012, he taught at Yüzüncü Yıl University. In 2012, with support from TÜBİTAK, he conducted postdoctoral research at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, focusing on contemporary woodblock techniques. Since 2013, he has been a faculty member at Hacettepe University’s Faculty of Fine Arts.
Kıran has held seven solo exhibitions abroad and nearly thirty in Turkey. His work has been featured in major international printmaking events in countries such as Japan, Taiwan, Poland, Sweden, Egypt, and Bulgaria. He has received 18 awards, including the Artist of the Year (2008–2009), several DYO Painting Competition prizes, and international recognitions in Japan.
His book Ağaç Baskı Sanatı (The Art of Woodblock Printing) was published in 2010. A selection of his works has been accepted into our museum collection by donation.