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Aynur Küçükyalçın was born in Bandırma in 1973. She decided to concentrate on art after receiving a medal in a national arts competition, which was organized by the Turkish Ministry of Energy. After graduating from a high school, she studied at the Fashion Design Institute for two years and received a diploma as a designer. She then graduated from the Department of Stage Arts and Costume Design at Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts in 1998. In 1996, her costume designs, uniquely uniting the tradition and the modern, attracted attention, and Küçükyalçın was assigned by a Japanese Institution to design the staff costumes of a theme-park in the Kashiwazaki Turkish Culture Town in Niigata, Japan. In addition to costume works, she learned traditional Ottoman “Illumination Art” (Tezhip) in the Topkapi Palace Museum for four years. Küçükyalçın also lived in Kyoto, Japan for a while and worked on the Traditional Japanese Arts.
Selected Exhibitions:
1996, Kashiwazaki Turkish Culture Town, Kashiwazaki, Japan
1998, Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul
2000, Darphane-i Amire, Istanbul
2001, Topkapı Palace, Istanbul
2006, Istanbul Archeology Museum, Istanbul
2007, Military Museum, Istanbul
2008, 1st International Biennial of Blows “From Seljuks To Now, Traditional Konya Handcrafts and Mevlana”, Konya
2009, Gallery Sukiwa, Kyoto
2009, Otsu Science and Arts Center, Kyoto
2009, Seta Arts Center, Kyoto
2010, Consulate General of Japan (Historical Buildings), Istanbul
2010, Gallery Sukiwa, Tokyo
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