EDUCATION
2002- 2005 Masters of Fine Arts in Painting, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
1991-1996 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Rug-Kilim design in Turkish Traditional Arts,
Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey
1982-1984 Undergraduate Studies in Manuscript Illumination design, Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Fine Arts
Istanbul, Turkey
1980-1982 Undergraduate Studies, Turkish Traditional Embroidery Design and Painting, Istanbul, Turkey
AWARDS AND ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
2010 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artist $15.000, Palm Beach, Florida
2010 1st Place, “Contempo” Lighthouse Art Center, Jupiter, Florida
2009 Award of Merit, Armory Art Center Faculty Exhibition, West Palm Beach, Florida
2006 Hector Ubertalli Award, $2.600 Palm Beach, Florida
2005 Armory Art Center, Artist-in-Residence, West Palm Beach, Florida
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2016 Woman: Untitled, Co-Curated at the Palm Beach Cultural Council, Lake Worth, Florida
2012 Outside The Box 1, Conceived and curated Landscape Installation exhibition, Whitespace, Mordes Collection, WPB, FL 2011 MidSummer Pop Up, 18 contemporary artists exhibited in an alternative space, PGA, Florida
2009 Open Air, 22 emerging artists, exhibited mixed-media installations in Lake Worth, Florida
2008 Ceyiz Makal, Turkish Photography Exhibition, Present Global Art Gallery, WPB, Florida
2007 Undertow, A Survey of South Florida Contemporary Art;
29 Artist Exhibited at The Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Cosmic Force; Mtn Space Gallery, Lake Worth Beach, Florida
2023 Changing Lines; Arts Warehouse, Delray Florida
2022 Open To Now; Arts Warehouse, Delray. Florida
2021 Flare; Sarasota Art Center, Florida
2019 Embrace; Caldas Da Rainha, Portugal
2019 The Invisibles; Palm Beach State College, Eissey Campus, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
2017 We Look Like Each Other; FAR Contemporary Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2016 The Ugly Birds; at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County, Lake Worth, Florida
2007 Governor’s Club, West Palm Beach, Florida
2006 Florida Atlantic University Jupiter Campus, Library Gallery, Jupiter, Florida
1001 Night Tales; Greenfield Gallery, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
2004 Recent Paintings; Schmidt Galleries, Public Space at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Crossing Borders; Curated By Tony Khawam, Artists from the Middle East & the Americas, Miami Dade College Arts & Design
2022 Crossing Borders; Curated By Tony Khawam, Artists from the Middle East & the Americas, Nova University, FL
2022 Crossing Borders; Curated By Tony Khawam, Artists from the Middle East & the Americas, Miami Dade College, FL
2020 Disobedient; Art Serve, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2019 Hand & I; University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
Polyopia; Arts Warehouse, Delray, Florida
Ripped From The Headlines; Fat Village Projects, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Conceptualism; Box Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
2018 Outside the Box: “Plasticberg - on Water” Installation Project, Whitespace, Mordes Collection, WPB, FL
Fold; International Museum of Art and Science, McAllen, Texas
2017 Waste Not; “Plasrticbergs” Installation Project, Palm Beach State College, PGA, FL
Opposing Futures, “Throw Away Culture” Installation Project, Fat Village, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2016 Wrestling The Snake; “Asylum Seeker” Installation Project, Fat Village Art District, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Art Palm Beach; Contemporary Art Fair, represented by JF Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
Box Gallery Grand opening, West Palm Beach, FL
2015 7th All Media-Juried Biennial; Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida
Artistically Speaking, at the Cornell Museum, Delray Florida
Artists of Art Salon; A Collective Dialogue; Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
Palm Beach; Contemporary Art Fair, represented by JF Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
2014 Animal Exhibition; Cultural Council Palm Beach County, Lake Worth, Florida
2013 Margot Stein Gallery, Lake Worth, Florida
The Invisible Horde; Unit 1, Lake Worth, Florida
2012 Cultural Council Palm Beach County, Lake Worth, Florida
This and That; Unconventional Selections from the permanent collection, Miami, Florida
2011 South Florida Cultural Consortium Exhibition;
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Add Juncture & Nannette Cherry; 1310 Gallery, Curated by Lisa Rockford, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2010 A Terrible Beauty; Artformz Alternative, Miami, Florida
Twice Upon A Time; PBSC Eissey Campus Gallery, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
New Art; Juried by Fredric Snitzer, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
Contempo; Lighthouse Art Center, Jupiter, Florida
SST; Mary Woerner Fine Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
2009 Visual Conceits; Fantasy or Reality, Juried By Bernice Steinbaum, Armory Art Center, WPB, Florida Money Makes Art; Artformz Alternative, Miami, Florida
Hotter Than A Match Head; Artformz Alternative, Miami, Florida
Welcome; Artformz Alternative, Miami, Florida
EroticaXdeux; Gallery 1608, West Palm Beach, Florida
New Works; PBCC Faculty Exhibition, Eissey Campus, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Dilettantes, Dandies, and Divas; Portrait Exhibition, Sarah Gavlak Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
2008 Artists with Attitude; Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
Palm Beach Currents; Survey of Contemporary Art in Palm Beach County, West Palm Beach, Florida
Second Palm Beach Biennale; Sarah Gavlak, West Palm Beach, FL
Armory Art Centers Annual Faculty Exhibition, Present Global Art Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
2007 Undertow; 29 South Florida Artists Exhibition,
The Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey
2006 Mix Works; Lake Park, Florida
10th International Cairo Biennale; Cairo, Egypt
Tastes&Tongues; Food Cultural Museum, Miami, Florida
First Palm Beach Biennale; Sarah Gavlak, West Palm Beach, Florida
From Private Walls; Light House Art Center, Jupiter, Florida
Miami Draws You; Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2005 Process/Progression; Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
MFA Graduate Exhibition; Istanbul-Westanbul,
Schmidt Gallery Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
2004 Trucks for Truth; Miami Art Basel, Miami, Florida
2003 Abstract Expressionism3; Jeannette Hare Art Gallery, Northwood University, Florida
Downsize; A Brief Exhibition of Diminutive Art Work, Lake Worth, Florida
Art Ensemble; Graduate Painting Studios, FAU, Boca Raton, Florida
Love, Lost, Excess, and Indulgence; FAU, Boca Raton, Florida
LECTURES/PANELS
2021 Art Center Sarasota, Panel discussion, Sarasota, Florida
2019 Boca Raton Museum Of Art, "Multimedia" Artist Talk
2019 Art Salon Presentation, Armory Art Center, West Palm, Beach Florida
2017 FAR Contemporary Gallery, Artist Talk, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2016 Conversation Piece: Art and Activism: Can We Fix, Bailey Contemporary Arts, Pompano, Florida
2012 Artist Presentation, Jupiter Light House, Jupiter, Florida
2012 Women and Culture Art Salon, Armory Art Center, West Palm, Beach Florida
2006 Artist Presentation, Armory Art Center, West Palm, Beach Florida
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