Ülkü Uludoğan (born 1940,

Ankara Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, maki ...

) is a Turkish artist. She received her first art lessons from her father Naim Uludoğan. She graduated from

Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University The Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University ( tr, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, or MSGSÜ) is a Turkish public university dedicated to higher education in the fine arts. It is located in the Fındıklı neighbourhood of Beyoğlu, Istanbu ...

in Istanbul, and has also taken art and painting lessons from

Nurullah Berk Nurullah Berk (March 22, 1906, İstanbul – January 9, 1982, İstanbul) was a Turkish painter, writer and an academician who pioneered cubism and constructivism in Turkey. After finishing Galatasaray Lycee he attended Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi, t ...

and . She continued art studies with in Ankara and in Germany, and graduated from the

University of Kassel The University of Kassel (german: link=no, Universität Kassel) is a university founded in 1971 located in Kassel, Hessen, in central Germany. As of February 2022 it had about 25,000 students and about 3300 staff, including more than 300 prof ...

. Uludoğan was a culture & art consultant to the Destek Reasürans Art Gallery of

Türkiye İş Bankası Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

for 8 years. She is one of the main founders of Women Artists' Society of Ankara. Her paintings are exhibited in the

State Art and Sculpture Museum State may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''State Magazine'', a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State * ''The State'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, United States * ''Our S ...

(Ankara),

Hessian State Museum, Kassel The Hessian State Museum (''German'': Hessisches Landesmuseum) is a local history museum located in Kassel, Germany. The collection ranges from the Paleolithic Age to the present. The museum is also home to the German Wallpaper Museum. It is p ...

and various state and private galleries and collections. Uludoğan has held seventeen solo exhibitions as well as various mixed painting exhibitions in Turkey and in Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, and Jordan. She also held two joint father-daughter painting exhibitions with Naim Uludoğan, first in 1965, and secondly in 1991 that toured various Turkish cities and Kassel, Germany.

Prizes and awards

* 1972 – Received an Honorable Mention of Ankara Art Magazine with her water color portrait * 1976 – UFACSI (Union Féminine Artistique et Culturelle) 15 person special group award * 1988 – 30-Year Service to Turkish Art award by prime minister

Turgut Özal Halil Turgut Özal (; 13 October 192717 April 1993) was a Turkish politician, who served as the 8th President of Turkey from 1989 to 1993. He previously served as the 26th Prime Minister of Turkey from 1983 to 1989 as the leader of the Mothe ...

on behalf of the “Türk Kadınını Güçlendirme Vakfı” * 1989 – The order of l’Ard de Leonardo da Vinci by the Cordon Bleu du Saint Esprit * 1989 – Order of the Knight of Cordon Blue * 1989 – Diploma of “Professeur h.c. ” by Parthasarathy International Cultural Academy (PICA, Mandras, India) * 1990 – Bronze medal of “Gran Premio Goya Atribuido” and the Diploma by Asociacion Belgo-Hispanica ASBL, Spain

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Uludoğan, Ülkü 1940 births Living people Turkish women painters 20th-century Turkish women artists 21st-century Turkish women artists