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Elif Çimen was born in Istanbul in 1975. She finished Üsküdar American College. She graduated from the Department of Painting in the Faculty of Fine Arts of Mimar Sinan University in 2000 and continued her master’s degree at the alma mater between 2000 and 2003. She received her efficient art doctorate at the Social Science Institution in 2006. She learned painting at the Zekai Ormanci’s workshop and Prof. Gökhan Anlağan’s workshop; engraving at the Febvzi Tüfekçi’s workshop and Prof. Asım İşler’s workshop. She also learned glasses from Asst. Prof. İlhan Hasdemir and wooden sculpture at the Prof. Meriç Hızal’s workshop. In 2008, she was awarded the gold medal in Beijing Olympics with her work, “Circles & Cycles”, symbolizing the rings and the color of Olympic Games. Currently she works as a tutor at the Department of Painting in the Faculty of Fine Art of Balıkesir University.
Exhibitions:
2000 April, students group exhibition at Mimar Sinan University.
2000 May, group exhibition at the Istanbul Turkish Heart Foundation.
2001 April, group exhibition at the Nazım Hikmet Cultural Foundation.
2001 May, group exhibition at the Kabataş Culture Center.
2002 October, an art activity “Buluşma-Begegnung” in Münster, Germany.
2003 February, group exhibition at the Esenyurt Culture Center.
2003 July, the art activity on ferryboats.
2003 October, 2nd. International Tünel Art Festival: “On Sanatçı, Tek Resim”.
2004 July, group exhibition at the Istanbul Akademililer Sanatevi.
2004 September, group exhibition at the Istanbul Tüyap Art Fair.
2005 July, solo exhibition “Çizik Kent-Scratch City” at UIA Kapus.
2007June, 6th Lessedra Mini Print Annual: Sofya, Bulgaria.
Conferences and Symposiums:
2005 September, 1st. Hereke Carpet Congress, Kocaeli University (Kocaeli), paper: “Avrupa Resim Sanatında Türk Halılarının Kullanılışı” (published).
2005 November, 6th. International Congress of Turkish Culture, Atatürk Culture Center (Ankara), paper: “Avrupa Resim Sanatında Türk Kültürü Öğelerinin Kullanılışı” (forthcoming).
2006 November, International Symposium of Traditional Handicrafts Art, Dokuz Eylül University (Izmir), paper: “16-19. Yüzyıllar Arası Gezginlerin Oluşturduğu Albümlerde Türk Kıyafetleri” (published).
2006 November, Turkish Esthetic Congress “Türkiye′de Estetik”, the Sanart- ODTU (Ankara), paper: “Estetik Değerler Bağlamında Kent-Sanat İlişkisine Bir Bakış” (published).
2006 December, International Symposium of Art Economy, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (Çanakkale), paper: “Kent- Sanat İlişkisinin Ekonomik Boyutuna Ressamca Bir Bakış” (forthcoming).
2007 May, International Congress of Visual and Semiology Science, İ.K.U. (Istanbul), paper: “Batı Resminden Görsel Göstergelere ve Sembollere İlişkin Örneklemeler” (published).
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