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Taner Ceylan (born 1967) is a German-born Turkish photo-realist artist. He lives and works in Istanbul.
Taner Ceylan studied painting in the Fine Arts Faculty at Mimar Sinan University between 1986 - 1991. He then worked for the Fine Arts Faculty of Yeditepe University between 2001 and 2003 as a lecturer and worked as an editor in chief of arts of Time Out Istanbul Magazine between 2001 and 2006. Many of his painting are in private collections such as those of Martin Browne, Dan Cameron, Fethi Pekin, and museum collections such as the Dr. F. Nejat Eczacıbasi Foundation and the Scheringa Museum of Realist Art.
His highest priced work is the painting 1879 (From the Lost Paintings Series) (2011) in which a veiled Ottoman noblewoman stands before the framed canvas of L'Origine du monde . [1] [2] He is represented by Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York City.
Ara Güler was an Armenian-Turkish photojournalist, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul". He was "one of Turkey's few internationally known photographers".
Kenny Scharf is an American painter known for his participation in New York City's interdisciplinary East Village art scene during the 1980s, alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, Scharf's do-it-yourself practice spanned painting, sculpture, fashion, video, performance art, and street art. Growing up in post-World War II Southern California, Scharf was fascinated by television and the futuristic promise of modern design. His works often includes pop culture icons, such as the Flintstones and the Jetsons, or caricatures of middle-class Americans in an apocalyptic science fiction setting.
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University is a Turkish state university dedicated to the higher education of fine arts. It is located in the Fındıklı neighborhood of Beyoğlu, İstanbul, Turkey. Mimar Sinan Fine Arts High School in İstanbul and Ankara is not a unit of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.
Haluk Akakçe is a contemporary artist living and working in New York and Istanbul whose work explores the intersections between society and technology through video animations, wall paintings and sound installations. He trained in architecture at Bilkent University, Ankara, then graduated with an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Akakçe's work has appeared in the Istanbul and São Paulo Biennials, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and the Walker Art Center. Among his numerous solo shows, Akakçe has exhibited at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York and the Berlin KunstWerke. He was shortlisted for the Beck's Futures award at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 2004.
Mustafa Pancar is a Turkish artist.
Sabina Shikhlinskaya, born April 26, 1962, in Baku, is an Azerbaijani artist and independent curator. She works in painting, video and photography. Well known for her early modernistic paintings, she transitioned to contemporary art in the 1990s. She is one of the pioneers of conceptual art in Azerbaijan. Shikhlinskaya's work explores current problems in the relationship between individual and society. In art projects curated by Sabina Shikhlinskaya, the social subject also has high priority.
Iliya Zhelev, also written as Илия Желев, born 1961 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, is a famous Eastern European painter.
Erinç Seymen is a Turkish artist.
Diet Sayler is a German painter and sculptor.
Füsun Onur is a Turkish artist, based in Istanbul. She uses everyday materials in her painting and sculpture to reflect on space, time, rhythm and form.
Emre Arolat is a Turkish architect. In 2004 he co-founded EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture with Gonca Paşolar.
Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye is a Turkish-Danish ceramic artist. Siesbye designed ceramic wares for the ceramic companies Royal Copenhagen and Rosenthal AG. In 2009, Siesbye was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her ceramic designs.
Naim Uludoğan was a Turkish artist, sculptor and cartographic officer. Born in Shkodër, then part of the Ottoman Empire, he and his family migrated to Istanbul in the immediate aftermath of the First Balkan War. He graduated from the Kuleli Military High School and Harbiye War Academy (1933) as an Infantry officer during the period of 1926–34. At Kuleli, he received regular instructions from Sami Yetik, a well known Turkish artist.
Ülkü Uludoğan is a Turkish artist. She received her first art lessons from her father Naim Uludoğan. She graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, and has also taken art and painting lessons from Nurullah Berk and Neşet Günal. She continued art studies with Abidin Elderoğlu in Ankara and Werner Kausch in Germany, and graduated from the University of Kassel.
Nancy Atakan was born in Virginia, US. She is a visual artist living and working in Istanbul since 1969. Her works deal with issues of feminism, gender, identity and memory. Also a critic and art historian, she has completed her PhD on conceptual art in Turkey. She is a co-founder of the artist-run-space 5533, operating since 2008 in Istanbul Traders' Market Shopping Center.
Ipek Duben is a contemporary visual artist based in Istanbul. She produces artist books, poetry, installations, video, painting and sculpture. Her work deals with identity issues, feminism, and migration with a strong emphasis on social and political criticism. Besides actively producing and exhibiting art, Duben also acts as an art critic with numerous published essays and books on art and criticism. In recent years her work has been shown in international institutions including Belvedere Museum, Vienna (2016), SALT Galata, Istanbul (2015), British Museum, London (2014), 13th Istanbul Biennial (2013) and Akademie der Künst, Berlin (2009). In 2015, SALT published a collection of her essays on art and criticism written between 1978 and 2010.
Zehra Say was a Turkish painter and first Turkish woman to be officially married under the 1926 Civil Marriage law. She is known as one of the pioneering women of Atatürk's Turkey for her modern look on women's equality. As an artist she is known for her paintings of nature, flowers and fruits. Her great love of nature reflected in her paintings as she depicted Istanbul in a different light. Her work is described as an realistic interpretation of nature. She is the mother of painter Emel Say and grandmother of pianist Fazil Say.
Nuran Tanrıverdi is a Turkish architect and painter.
Emel Vardar is a Turkish sculptor and painter.
Yahşi Baraz is a Turkish art dealer. He is the founder and the director of one of Turkey's earliest art galleries, Galeri Baraz.
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