Born in London in 1964 to Turkish Cypriot parents, Çerkez finished his studies at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, in 1987. He had his first solo exhibitions the next year, at City Gallery in Melbourne and the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney. He has exhibited regularly in major group and solo shows since. He quickly attracted an international reputation, showing in the US, Italy and Denmark, as well as at the 1998 São Paolo Biennale and the Istanbul Biennial in 1999. In the same year, he was in the Seppelt Contemporary Art Award. Cerkez died in 2005.
