Hanefi Yeter started his education in the Workshop of Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu of the State Academy of Fine Arts in 1967 and studied in Bedri Rahmi Eyüpoğlu’s Private Workshop during his training. In 1970, he earned the right to receive art training in Paris, “Academie des Beaux-Arts”, because of some personal reasons he couldn’t finished that education and turned back to Istanbul. He completed his education at the Academy and graduated from there in 1972. In 1973 he passed the State Scholarship Examination and started his postgraduate studies in Berlin, the Fine Arts Academy, and graduated in 1978.
Yeter opened nearly 56 personal exhibitions abroad in Vienna, Paris, Brussels, Manchester City and various cities in Germany. He became the first Turkish-born who opened a personal exhibition in East Germany. In that exhibition his catalogue was published with special permissions. He took place in numerous group exhibitions, books, catalogues, posters and different countries’ media outlets.
The book “Hanefi Yeter 1962-1982” written by Volker Martin was published in 1982. His works are in the Museum of Berlin.
He performed 5 murals, 2 ceramic facades, 2 mosaic panels, 1 sculpture in Berlin and 3 murals in the city Darmstadt.
He had 28 personal exhibitions in his domestic. Two books of Yeter were published which contain his paintings and sculptures.
Between the dates 2006 and 2012 he performed up to 100 sculptures and reliefs in the shopping malls Forum Mersin, Aydin, Denizli, Trabzon, Ankara, Bursa, Istanbul, Antalya, Tarsus and Nevşehir.