Mehlika Korol - Turkish Painting Association - UK- Headquartered in London

Who is Mehlika Korol? (1956-Izmir)

She was born in Izmir. She graduated from the Painting Department of Buca Education Institute in 1978-1979. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Painting Department of Dokuz Eylul University Buca Faculty of Education in 1987. She worked at the Salzburg International Summer Academy in the Prof. Jacobo Borges Studio in 1995. She retired from Izmir Karatas High School in 2002 and worked as a paid instructor in the Painting and Art History Department of the Ballet Department of Izmir Dokuz Eylul University State Conservatory in the same year and as an instructor in the Painting Department of Buca Faculty of Education in Izmir between 2003-2006.

She worked as an art teacher at the Konak Municipality of Izmir for 11 years starting from 2004.

The artist also received a certificate from Prof. Henry de Lumley in the summer of 2010 after making successful moulage studies at the workshop of the Centre Europe’en de Recherches Pre’historiques Tautavel Museum. For two years, he regularly participated in drawing archaeological findings and excavation works at Grotte du Lazaret.

He carried out the live performance Painting activity in Turkey and Greece within the scope of the activities of the Izmir International Culture and Art Festival organized within the scope of the Civil Society Dialogue II Culture and Art Program (CSD-II/CA) conducted by the Ministry of European Union between June 2-10, 2012.

The artist is also a member of the International Plastic Artists Association and has participated in many mixed and competitive exhibitions. His works are in domestic and international collections. In his new period works, the artist seems to have set out to discover the ways of moving like water, changing with the wind, and the endless flow of life.

This means playing on the edge of the unformed. The artist produces his works with the desire to start a new moment, an adventure, where he can find the real reflection of his own self in the depth of the invisible mutual spread of visible differences and the points or traces of the relations that form the wave-like spread of the knowledge of abstract truths, outside of being himself, as a part of the vast impersonal universe.

Awards received:
1991- 10th Turkish Petroleum Corporation Success Award
1992- 9th Esbank Painting Competition Success Award
2008- 18 March Çanakkale Naval Victory Painting Competition Success Award.
2023- Third place award in the Printmaking category of the İzmir Cultural Values Painting, Printmaking, Watercolor Competition.

Participated in Competitive Exhibitions;
1989- 6th Esbank Painting Competition
1989- 23rd DYO Painting Competition
1989- Ankara Culture Foundation Painting Competition
1990- 9th Traditional T.P.A.O. Atatürk Painting Competition
1991- 8th Esbank Painting Competition
1991- 5th Tekel Traditional Painting Competition
1991- 10th Turkish Petroleum Corporation < Success Award>
1992- D.M.O. Painting Competition
1992- 9th Esbank Painting Competition< Success Award>
1992- 3rd Çukurova Painting Competition
1992- 53rd State Painting and Sculpture Competition
1993- 10th Esbank Painting Competition
1993- 7th Tekel Traditional Painting Competition
1993- 54th State Painting and Sculpture Competition
1994- 55th State Painting and Sculpture Competition
1998- 3rd Naval Forces Command ‘Sea’ Painting Competition
1999- 11th Tekel Traditional Painting Competition
2004- 16th Tekel Traditional Painting Competition
2006- 9th Naval Forces Command ‘Sea’ Painting Competition
2006- 1st Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism Photography Competition
2006- 5th International Triennial of Graphic Art-Bitola-Macedonia
2008-18 March Çanakkale Naval Victory Painting Competition <Achievement Award.>
2008-3.Nuri İyem Painting Competition.
2009-18 March Çanakkale Naval Victory Painting Competition.
2009-3.Egeart Art Days.
2011-1.International İzmir Biennial
2011-4.Egeart Art Days.
2013-2.International İzmir Biennial.
2013-5.Egeart Art Days.
2015-6.Egeart Art Days
2016-73.State Painting Sculpture Competition.
2017-1. İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Joyful Age Painting Competition.

Solo Exhibitions;
1991- Izmir Esbank Art Gallery Personal Exhibition
December 24, 1994- January 15, 1995 Izmir Turkuaz Gallery Personal Exhibition
December 12-29, 1995 Izmir İş Bankası Personal Exhibition
June 06-27, 1997 Yaşarbank Izmir Personal Exhibition
September 16-October 1, 1997 Hikmet Gürçay Art Gallery-Selçuk Personal Exhibition
April 16-May 11, 1998 O.D.T.Ü. Mustafa Parlar Art Gallery-Ankara
September 23, 2012 Antim Ivireanul Valcea Personal Painting Exhibition in Romania
January 07-February 02, 2013 Ege University Atatürk Cultural Center Art Gallery Personal Exhibition.

-The artist has also participated in numerous group exhibitions with the İz Group and others.