Most recently, he won the Hunters Hill Art Prize 2018 with his portrait of celebrity chef Manu Feildel – "Bon Appetit".
[3] He also won the Kennedy Prize in 2017 with another portrait of Manu Feildel,[4] and he has been selected into the Salon des Refuses and exhibited in the S. H. Ervin Gallery.
[citation needed] Gokalp's painting, the Sacrifice of the Model – a contemporary re-take of Caravaggio's Entombment of the Christ, has been selected into the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2015 and has been exhibited in the Juniper Hall in Paddington.
In May 2014, two of Gokalp's paintings, "Mama keeps me warm" and "Bille Brown in a Turkish Bath", were selected to be exhibited by Angus Trumble in the Glencore Percival Portrait Prize.
[citation needed] In March 2013, Gokalp's portrait of the late Bille Brown, an Australian stage, film, television actor, and playwright, was announced as one of the finalists in the Archibald Prize.