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Sema Çulam was born in Izmir. She started learning oil paintings and drawings in middle school years. She attended sculptor Turgut Pura’s drawing classes at the Izmir State Museum of Painting and Sculpture between 1976 and 1977. Çulam continued painting with Cavit Atmaca and Şeref Bigalı at the Painting Department of Izmir-Buca Education Institution between 1978 and 1979. In 1993, Çulam received honorable award in the Turkish Women Union for the 8th of March, Women’s Day Competition. In 2000, she won first prize in the International Naive Painting Competition. Until 2000, Çulam painted figurative abstract paintings, but since then she has concentrated on working naive paintings. She has had many solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Turkey and abroad. In 2005, she received an honorable certificate in the Micro-credit Art Biennial Exhibition. In 2009, she won first prize in the European Masters Exhibition Naive Contest in Madrid. Çulam is a member of UNESCO International Association of Arts. Her works can be seen in many collections not only in Turkey but also in France, Germany, the US, Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, Serbia, Brazil and Germany. In 2010, she won “Premio Miglior Straniero” in the International Naive Grossi Giannino Contest Exhibition in Milano. Currently, Çulam continues to work at her workshop in Istanbul.
Online Exhibitions:
2010, Sema Çulam Paintings, Nurol Art Gallery
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2000, Gulmine Art Gallery, Istanbul
2001, Uran Art Gallery, Istanbul
2001, MEB Art Gallery, Istanbul
2002, Artemis Art Gallery, Istanbul
2002, Anka Art Gallery, Lütfi Kırdar International Istanbul Art Fair
2002, Erbil Art Gallery, Istanbul
2003, Ariyel Art Gallery, Tuyap, Istanbul
2003, Bakrac Art Gallery, Istanbul
2004, Ariyel Art Gallery, Tuyap, Istanbul
2004, Cakinberk Art Gallery, Balikesir
2004, Pera Art Gallery, Istanbul
2004, Bakrac Art Gallery, Istanbul
2005, Sevgi Art Gallery, Ankara
2005, Jazz Now Art Center & Gallery, Bodrum
2005, Kanat Bayazıt Art Gallery, Tuyap, Istanbul
2005, Bakrac Art Gallery, Istanbul
2006, Ariyel Art Gallery, Istanbul
2006, Palet Art Gallery, Istanbul
2006, Kanat Bayazıt Art Gallery, Tuyap, Istanbul
2006, Bakrac Art Gallery, Istanbul
2006, Ares Art Gallery, Istanbul
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2000 Uğur Mumcu Art Gallery, Izmir
2004 Kanat Bayazıt Art Gallery, Istanbul
2004 Umit Yaşar Art Gallery, Istanbul
2005 I. Ulus. Turkey Grameen Mikrokredi Art Biennial
2006 Çakınberk Art Gallery, Balıkesir
2007 Naive and Marginal Museum, Serbia
2007 EKAV Art Gallery, Istanbul
2007 Doruk Art Gallery, Artist 2007, Tüyap-Istanbul
2007 Art Bosphorus Contemporary Art Fair
2008 The Clare White Gallery, England
2008 Deyim Art Gallery, Istanbul
2008 Deyim Art Gallery Istanbul
2008 Marziart Internationale Galerie Malschule + Studio, Hamburg
2008 V Muestra de Arte Naïf Europeo, Madrid
2008 Agora Art Gallery, New York
2008 Urun Art Gallery, Istanbul
2008 Doruk Art Gallery, Istanbul
2008 Belgrad Gallery Cvijeta Zuzoric, Serbia
Reference: lebriz.com, turkishpaintings.com |
