CONTEMPORARY TURKISH PAINTERS

Nilgün Köseoğlu

Who is Nilgün Köseoğlu? (1959 – Akşehir)

Born in 1959, graduated from Gazi Institute of Education in Ankara, in 1979. She retired in 2003. She is a member of the Associations of, UPSD, Euro Asian Worldwide, California Watercolour Printers Association and Breaktrough Group, Sesan, International Izartist Association. She works prints and watercolours. She continues her printing works in her ateliers called “İzmir Print Painting Artists”.

Her works are colorful, fluent, expressive figurative and are in the archive of the various cultural centers and collections in France, in China (Guanlan, Guangzhou, Beijing), in Japan (Kıwa, Kochi), in Serbia, in Brasil,  in Bulgaria (Varna),  in Spain, in İran (Tehran), in Austria (Vienna),  in Czechoslovakia (Praque), in Taiwan, in Romania (Prahova), in Spain (Granada), in Rusia (Ekaterinburg, Moskow), in Japan (Tokyo), in Kazakhstan (Almaty)  and in Turkiye. In 2021, one of her works was accepted into the Painting and Sculpture Museum of the Gazi Education Institute.

Participated in 19 solo, 200 mixed and 70 competitive exhibitions. 2011, 2022, 1.  and 6th Izmir Art Biennial, 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th. (2024) International Egeart Art Days, 2020 Artankara 6th Contemporary Art Fair, 2022-19 th Asian Biennale Banglades. Won 8 awards;  1st National Watercolor Competition (1st Mention), 2009 Çanakkale Wars Competition (Conservation Society Special Award), 2010 Balkan Women Painting Competition (Cavit Atmaca Special Award), 29th Turgut Pura Foundation painting and sculpture competition (Halim-Yıldız Şima award) 2021 First Place PonART Graphic Arts Competition (2nd place) and 2022 Uşak International Ex-libris Competition (3rd place), 2023 76. State Painting and Sculpture Competition, Achievement Award. 7th International İzmir Bienal of Arts, she won the Achievement Award in the 2024,

68.- 69.-70.-73.-76. State Painting and Sculpture Competition - Turkiye

8.-10.- 11.- 13.-14.Şefik Bursalı Foundation Painting Competition - Turkiye

27.- 28.- Turgut Pura Foundation Competition - Turkiye

29.Turgut Pura Foundation Competition “ Halim – Yıldız Şima Prize” - Turkiye

2008 -  Imoga 1. International Printmaking Biennial Competition - Turkiye

2008 -  1. National Watercolor Competition “1.Mention” - Turkiye

2008 -  Ignic / Foc – 54 Biennal International Dart Grafic – Spain

33.- 35. DYO Painting Competition - Turkiye

2009 - 3. Çanakkale Wars İzmir Devlet Resim ve Heykel Müzesi “Jury Prize” - Turkiye

2009 - The 15. International Print Biennial,  Varna – Bulgarian

2010 -  2. Balkan Women Meeting  “Cavit Atmaca Prize” - Turkiye

2010 -  6. KIWA Woodcut Competition- Japan

2011 -  X. Graphic Art Biennial Dry Point, Uzice – Serbia

2011 -  4. International Association of Museums Printmaking Competition – Istanbul- Turkiye

2012 - Nazım Hikmet Painting Competition– İzmir - Turkiye

2012 - Imprima – Mostra International de Gravura Sobral – Ceara ‘ Brasil

2013 - 4th Guanlan International Print Biennial–China

2014 - The 9th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints – Japan

2015 - The 18. International Print Biennnial  -Varna – Bulgaria

2016 - The 7th ExhibitonThe Kyoto International  Woodprint Association  (KIWA) – Japan

2016 - Guangzhou International Exlibrisand Mini –Prints Biennial – China

2017 – 2023 6th, 8th  Guanlan International Print Biennial – China

2017 – 2023  The 19. - 22 International Print Biennial – Varna – Bulgaria

2018 -  1. International Miniprint Competition – Trakya University – Turkiye

2018 – OCC Asian of The 37. Fisqe Congress in Praque Czesheslovakia    

2019 – 2022 - 8. 9. International Art Beijing Biennial – China

2020 – VIII International Bienal Print Exhibit; 2020 R.O.C.-Taiwan

2020 – ArtAnkara 6 th Art Fair-Ankara – Turkiye

2020 – International Virtual Engravist Printmaking Bienal – Turkiye

2020 – Artantakya Online Contemporary Art Fair – Turkiye

2021 – 2023 The “Iosif Iser” International Contemporary Engraving Biennial Exhibition Prahova - Romania

2022 – Uşak International Ex-libris Competition (3rd place) – Turkiye

2022 – 19 th Asian Biennale Bangladesh

2023 – 76. State Painting and Sculpture Competition – Achievement Award - Turkiye

2023 – “Year of the Rabbit Panda Global” International Commemorative Ex-Libris Design Competition- China

2023 – International Competition “Ex-Libris – Ekaterinburg - Rusia

2024 – III Certamen International de Ex Libris de Granada - Spain

2024 - The International Ex-Libris Competition “Everything Breathes Pushkin Here”  - Moskow - Rusia

2024 – International Small Printmaking Exhibition Bangkok - Tailand

2024 – She won the Achievement Award in the 7th International İzmir Bienal of Arts.- Turkiye

2024 – 8th. Grafic Art Biennial of Szeklerland - Romania

2024 – Sound of Turkish Printmaking Desing Festa Gallery Shibaya – Tokyo -Japan

2024 – Impression of Turkish Printmaking – Almaty- Kazakhstan

2024 – X. International Bienal Print Exhibit; 2024 R.O.C.-Taiwan

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