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List Of Turkish Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Turkey or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A * Hale Asaf (1905–1938), painter * Tomur Atagok (born 1939), painter and professor * Ruzen Atakan (born 1966), Turkish-Cypriot painter B * Nezihe Bilgütay Derler, Nezihe Bilgütay (Derler) (born 1926), miniaturist, Çini professional C * Sevgi Çağal (born 1957), painter and sculptor * Nevin Çokay (1930–2012), painter D * Şükriye Dikmen (1918–2000), painter * Ipek Duben (born 1941), contemporary visual artist E * Nese Erdok (born 1940), painter G * Leyla Gediz (born 1974), contemporary artist, based in Lisbon * Hatice Güleryüz (born 1968), contemporary artist * Nilbar Gures (born 1977), contemporary artist, based in Vienna I * Hülya Vurnal İkizgül (born 1966), mosaicist, sculptor, ceramist K * Müfide Kadri (1890–1912), painter * Nur Koçak (born 1941), contemporary artist * Füreya Koral (1910–1997), ceramist M * Melek Mazici (born 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a East Thrace, small portion on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. It shares borders with the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest. Cyprus is located off the south coast. Turkish people, Turks form the vast majority of the nation's population and Kurds are the largest minority. Ankara is Turkey's capital, while Istanbul is its list of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city and financial centre. One of the world's earliest permanently Settler, settled regions, present-day Turkey was home to important Neol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Füreya Koral
Füreya Koral (June 2, 1910 – August 25, 1997) was a pioneering ceramics artist born into a prominent artistic family in Turkey. Known for her wall panels, Koral worked in a variety of media such as tiles and statuettes, and also created ceramic-inlaid tables and stools . She started working on ceramics after she was diagnosed with tuberculosis while receiving treatment at a sanatorium in Switzerland. A self-taught artist, her works were mostly ignored during her lifetime although she did create wood-and-ceramic furnishings for the new National Assembly Building in Ankara. Seeking to push the limits of ceramics beyond its function, she was inspired by the art of the ancient civilisations of Turkey, Mexico and East Asia, especially Japan, and her work often combines elements taken from both Western and Eastern artistic traditions. She signed her works with the anglicised version of her given name, Fureya. Early life Füreya Koral was born on Büyükada, Istanbul. Her fath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Women Artists By Nationality
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Turkish Women Artists
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Nil Yalter
Nil Yalter (born 1938) is a Turkish contemporary feminist artist. She attended Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey and currently lives and works in Paris. Her work, which is included in many collections and museums, includes not only drawings and photographs, but also videos and performance art. In fact she is the first Turkish female video artist. Early life Nil Yalter was born in 1938 in Cairo, Egypt where she lived until the age of four. She is Turkish and later in her life became also a French national. She received her education from Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey. She started painting at an early age and took dance and ballet classes. In 1956, she traveled to India on foot while practicing pantomime. She had her first exhibition of paintings inspired by this travel at the French Cultural Institute in Mumbai (Bombay) in 1957. Between 1963 and 1964 she worked as stage and costume designer for theatre companies in Istanbul. In 1963, she participated at the 3rd Paris Biennal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emel Vardar
Emel Vardar is a Turkish sculptor and painter. Biography Vardar studied in the Faculty of Painting and Sculpture at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and at the Sculpture Museums Society Studios. She painted many sea scenes and one of her paintings was taken by the Turkish Naval Forces headquarters. She held several personal exhibitions and participated in many art festivals and fairs in other countries including the United States, China, Monaco and the United Kingdom. More recently she has worked mainly on sculpture especially following her opening a sculpture gallery. In 1993, Vardar opened the Eylul Art Gallery. In 2004 she opened the Emel Vardar Art Gallery for exclusively sculpture exhibitions. Sculpture Vardar's main sculpture style include female figures and busts. She uses various materials, including bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, mangan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canan Tolon
Canan Tolon (born 1955) is a Turkish-born artist who now lives and works in Emeryville, California. Tolon works in the mediums of printmaking, painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation. She has exhibited internationally in Ankara, Istanbul, Kiev, London, Los Angeles, New York, Oakland and San Francisco. In 2010, one of Tolon's paintings, "Glitch VI" (2008) was a highlight at Sotheby's auction in Turkey, and in 2012, ''Art + Auction'' named Tolon one of the 50 Next Most Collectible Artists. A Los Angeles Times review in 2014 noted that Tolon's paintings "highlight our tendency to look for recognizable forms" and "also perhaps a comment on the degraded quality of our image landscape." Early life and education Tolon was born in Istanbul in 1955 and spent her childhood in France. after graduating from the Ecole Française d’Istanbul (1975) She studied design and architecture at Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland (1976), Fachhochschule, Trier, Germany (1979), Middlesex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hale Tenger
Hale Tenger (born 1960, in Izmir) is a visual artist based in Istanbul. She is known for her large-scale installations that explore identity, collective memory, and political violence. Using sculpture, video, and sound, her work has been exhibited at numerous public institutions, including Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.; Martin-Gropius-Bau and Kunst-Werke, Berlin; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn; Fridericianum, Kassel; New Museum, New York; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille; Carré d’Art-Nimes Museum of Contemporary Art, Nimes; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Centre d’Art Contemporain Genéve, Geneva; Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen; Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem; Istanbul Modern and ARTER, Istanbul. Education Tenger received an AA in Computer Progra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canan Senol
Canan Senol (; née Canan Şahin; born 1970), also known by the mononym Canan, is a Turkish multidisciplinary visual artist and activist, of Kurdish ethnicity. Her artwork addresses gender stereotypes, sexuality, and politics. She utilizes a variety of mediums in her practice including craft and digital techniques. Biography Canan Şahin was born in 1970 in Turkey. She grew up in a rural part of Turkey. She studied at Marmara University, where she received a BA degree (1992) in business, and later studied painting at the same university. She was married to a man with the name Şenol, however they divorced in 2010 and as an act of rebellion she continued to use his last name professionally which goes against local laws (sometimes uses her mononym). Senol's artwork has been shown widely including, "Global Feminisms" (2007) group exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is held in public museum collections, including the Centre Pompidou, the Pinakothek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gizem Saka
Gizem Saka (born 9 April 1978, Istanbul) is a contemporary Turkish artist and an economist. She is a senior lecturer at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, and a visiting lecturer at Harvard University, teaching art markets. Biography Born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, Gizem Saka obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from Koç University in 1999. She moved to the United States the same year. In 2008, she received her PhD in behavioral and experimental economics from Cornell University. While attending college, Saka started drawing and studied pottery and sculptural form. In 2000, she started taking classes at the department of Art and Architecture at Cornell University. In 2005, she had her first solo exhibition in Montreal's Gallery Gora. Since 2005, she has been exhibiting in international venues. As a young athlete, Saka was the Turkish national champion in gymnastics and between 1989 and 1993, a member of the Turkish national gymnastic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayal Pozanti
Hayal Pozanti (born 1983, Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish-born artist, based in the United States. She is known for her large scale, brightly colored, seemingly abstract and geometric paintings, that represent statistical data related to human-computer interaction. Life and work Hayal Pozanti studied visual arts and visual communication design at Sabancı University in Istanbul and went on to study at Yale University, receiving a M.F.A. in painting and printmaking in 2011. Her work is informed by her ongoing exploration of "cyborg anthropology", which she describes as "a framework for understanding the effects of technology on human beings and culture". Her work ''Ciphers'' (2015) was a direct rendering of data into a glyph alphabet, and limiting herself to the creation of 31 characters. The paintings from ''Ciphers'' (2015) feature layered abstractions of the shapes, and were displayed in the gallery with abstract sculptures of similar shapes. Pozanti revisited this theme o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Setenay Özbek
Setenay Özbek (born 1961, in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish-born artist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. Özbek is of Ubykh descent. Biography Özbek was born in 1961 in Istanbul, Turkey and she attended Erenköy Girls High School. In 1990, she graduated from Marmara University, within the Faculty of Fine Arts in the Department of Performing Arts. From 1983 to 1986, Özbek studied art informally at the "Istasyon Fine Art Academy", under the tutelage of several artists, Sabri Berkel, Hülya Düzenli, Erkan Özdilek and Ergül Özkutan. Her abstract expressionist paintings are created in both acrylic and oil paint, they have a bold appearance due to the contrasting colours and shapes. Since 1986, Özbek went on to branch out into documentary filmmaking. In 2009, she was awarded first prize for the Bakrac Art Gallery 30th Year Painting Competition. In 2009, Fifth Tashkent Biennale of Contemporary Art, "The 3rd Runner up". She is a member of International PEN Association of W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |