Funda İyce Tuncel (born 1968, in

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) is a

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painter and founding member of the Contemporary Arts Foundation. She was born in

, Turkey in 1968. She received education in

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in the Art Department. From 1992 to 1995, she worked as an art consultant at the

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. She became a member of several organizations including "The International Fine Arts Society" ( tr, Uluslararası Plastik Sanatçılar Derneği, UPSD), "Pan-Mediterranean Women Artists Network" (FAM) ( tr, Akdeniz Kadın Sanatçılar Birliği), and the "United Painters and Sculptors Society" ( tr, Birleşmiş Ressamlar ve Heykeltraşlar Derneği, BRHD), of which she was the Secretary-General from 1998 to 2002. She was also the founder and first member of the "Contemporary Arts Foundation" ( tr, Çağdaş Sanatlar Vakfı, ÇAĞSAV). She was also a founding member of the "International Knidos Culture and Arts Academy" ( tr, Uluslararası Kinidos Kültür Sanat Akademisi, UKKSA). In 2008 she published her first book detailing her methods and artwork, and a second book, ''Göç İmgeleri'', in 2013. She has had 44 personal expositions at several places including one at the

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, and also many collaborative exhibitions.

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