Vildan Işık

Vildan Işık was born in Osmaniye in 1973. She studied ceramics for two years in college, and graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Dokuz Eylül University. The title of her B.A. thesis is: “Coincidence & Coincidentally Problematic of 20th Century Painting”. She earned her M.F.A. from Cumhuriyet University with a thesis on “Art Discussions of Turkish Painting Between 1930 and 1970 & The Artist, Being in the Focus of Those Discussions: Bedri Rahmi Eyuboğlu”. Işık gave classes on painting and drawing between 1999 and 2001 at different institutions in Turkey. She has been a lecturer at Cumhuriyet University since 2002. She has been working on contemporary abstract paintings and abstraction of various figures at her studio in the same university. Her favorite materials are oil and acrylic on canvas.