Yıldız Duman Ercan - Turkish Painting Association

Who is Yıldız Duman Ercan? (1972 – Aydın)

She was born in Aydın Karacasu in 1972. She studied at Dokuz Eylül University Buca Faculty of Education, Department of Painting and Crafts Education, Department of Graphics from 1991 to 1995. She completed her undergraduate studies at Mehmet Fırıncı, Demir Ali Selamet and Yüksel Uslay workshops. She completed her master’s degree with her thesis titled “Reflection of Ancient Baroque Art on European Baroque Art” at Pamukkale University Social Sciences Institute, Department of Classical Archaeology from 2011 to 2016. She continues her project titled “Colorful Screams of History”, which she prepared on Ancient Cities, Historical and Mythological Stories, consisting of seven stages and series. She participated in national and international art biennials and exhibitions. The Founder of the International Art Educators Association (USED) and also continues to serve in the Muğla Stratonikeia Ancient City Excavation Board and Denizli Attoudahisar Ancient City Excavation Board.

Since 1998, the artist has prioritized human-themed graphic abstractions and nature abstractions. In the following process, he works on painting-stain-color arrangements on the surface. With the start of his Master’s Degree in Classical Archaeology, he has the opportunity to examine Antiquity, architecture, sculpture and historical facts from ancient times to the present day. He transforms sculptural forms into graphic abstractions. He evaluates every source, every piece of information and every article he examines. He especially has the opportunity to examine heroes and sculptures related to the Hellenistic period. The artist makes his drawing works in this direction. The artist’s tendency towards reality becomes evident in his works that include historical themes, especially based on sources. In his works where imagination and reality are handled together, color walks in great harmony and harmony with the subject. The faces of the figures in the artist’s works attract attention. One side of the faces is blurred, dark and uncertain. This invisible side symbolizes the unknown, the world we cannot see and intervene in, the world we call the “other”. However, the side where the face is clearly depicted in detail, represents the visible, experienced, lived-in, known side. This shows how much the artist cares about reality. History, time and place are there with both their reality and their imagination. The artist knows no bounds in terms of materials. He works on canvas, chipboard, paper, fly screens, terracotta fired ceramics, etc. He mostly uses different materials and textures together in a work, emphasizing that a part of life, if not the whole, can continue on its way, that breaking, the material described as waste can contribute to aesthetics, and aims to evoke multifaceted interpretations. Although I have a colorist approach in my works, from time to time, orange and blue are predominant, and in some periods, shades of brown, red and green are observed. As a painting artist, his aim is to convey the stories, tales, archaeological-historical legends of the ancient lands he lives in, no matter what material he uses, by making the viewer travel in time through art. To ensure that the viewer has an objective idea within the time flowing towards us. When the viewer confronts my productions, he wants the viewer to be at peace with not being able to comprehend the work he is watching, rather than worrying about understanding or being transported to the past. In his works, he aims to carry our past historical, immovable cultural values to the present day through an artistic means, and to experience the pleasure of realizing and reminding that their traces in the present day will also take us back to the past at the highest level.

Selected Awards:
1995- Tuntaş Hotel Emblem Competition Honorable Mention
2010- Ostroporoz Association Competition Work Worthy of Exhibition
2010- Çorlu Culture and Art Association “My Turkey” Painting Competition 2nd in Turkey
Personal Exhibitions:

2024 “Colorful Screams of History CAPPADOCIA IV” -Nevşehir
2023 11th Personal Exhibition - Ankara
2022 “RUMORS REALITIES” Personal Exhibition - DENİZLİ
2020 VI. “SEAL” Online Personal Exhibition
2018-V. Personal Exhibition “RHETORİK” Painting Exhibition –Denizli
2015-Laykus Valley Arche.Symposium Colorful Screams of History III Laodikeia-Denizli
2012- Aphrodisias Art Center- “Dialogue with Time” -İzmir
2011- Colorful Screams of History II Hierapolis - Denizli.
2010- IV. Personal Exhibition-Colorful Screams of History I Aphrodisias – Karacasu
2008- III. Personal Exhibition-“Dance and Rhythm” –Denizli
2007- 24 November Mevlana Year Marbling-Pattern Exhibition-Denizli
1998- II. Personal Exhibition-Erzurum 1989- 1st Personal Exhibition-Karacasu

Selections from Group Exhibitions 2025 “Hello to the New Year” International Group Exhibition-Denizli 2024 IN MEMORY OF BELA BARTOK “Human and Music” Mail Art Project Exhibition-Osmaniye
2024 10th ARTANKARA International Contemporary Art Fair
2023 Tam Sanat Online Group Exhibition
2023 International WomansArt Festival “FRIDA” Tirane-Atnavutluk
2023 “100th Year Mail Art Project Group Exhibition-Sinop
2023 “CIVILIZATIONS from Antiquity to Today” Exhibition-Urla
2023Bodrum- Artfair Art Fair-Bodrum
2023International Painting Exhibition-Ayartgallery-Izmir
2023“100 Artists 100 Works of Art of the Republic 100th Year” Online Contemporary Art Exhibition
2022 “DYNAMISM” Mixed Painting Exhibition - Ankara
2022 Çankaya Municipality Zülfü Livaneli Culture and Art Center TABU Mixed S.-Ankara
2022 Kemerartı Meetings Interdisciplinary Mixed Exhibition-İzmir
2022 ARTH Gallery Mixed Exhibition –Bodrum
2022 A Group of People Mixed Exhibition- Denizli
2022 Signature Art Gallery “ADAGIO” Mixed Exhibition- İstanbul
2022 ARTANKARA Art Fair- Ankara
2022 Selçuk Univ. Faculty of Architecture and Design “Tell Me About Women” Online Mixed Exhibition
2021 Uludağ Univ. International Exhibition” Effect of Art on health” Mixed Exhibition- Bursa
2021 Istanbul Art and Antiques Fair-Neoart Gallery Mixed Exhibition-Istanbul
2021 KIEV Art Academy and Shevchenko University Mixed Exhibition-Ukraine
2021 International Island Country Artists Mail Art Exhibition- Isparta
2021 Selçuk University POMO III International Mail Art Mixed Exhibition- Konya
2021 Gallery D’Art Lavision “FELİCİTY” Mixed Exhibition- Istanbul
2021Artsonline Wep Art GAllery3. “50 Artists, 50 Works” Online Mixed Exhibition
2021 Luna Art Gallery “STARDUST” Mixed Online 3D exhibition
2021 Kahramanmaraş S.İ.G.S.F. “World Painters Day” Mixed Online Exhibition
2021 Yıldız Technical University I.Academic Researches for S. CONGRESS -2021 Online Exhibition
2021 Kahramanmaraş S.İ.G.S.F. “International Women's Day” Mixed Online Exhibition
2021 Ankara Music and Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition “RED” Online Exhibition
2020 Görsed- Dumlupınar Ü. G. S. F. “Art Education During the Pandemic Period” International K. Exhibition-Kütahya
2020 Akdeniz University Fine Arts Faculty “Republic” Exhibition-Antalya
2020 Varna” Cozmic motion Revealed” International Exhibition -Bulgaria
2020 XARTPlatform International Online Mixed Exhibition
2020 Orange Blossom- Tev “Goodness is Contagious” Mixed Exhibition. 2020 Artonline 1st Online Mixed Exhibition
2020 PO-MO II International Mail Art Exhibition (Selçuk Univ.)-Konya
2020 Art Heals, Online Mixed Exhibition
2020 TamSanat Online Mixed Exhibition
2020 “Touches with Love” Mixed Painting Exhibition- Istanbul
2019 Artsürem 3rd Sada Symposium exhibition- Ankara
2019 Kyrgyzstan-Turkey Manas University “Transformation” Mixed Exhibition-IRKGIZITAN
2019 “Another World” group exhibition ISTANBUL
2018 I. OLPESİDO International “Paper Works” Exchange Project - CAPPADOCIA
2018 “Reflections of Art” Mixed Exhibition- Varna- BULGARIA
2018-VIII. International Varna Art and Art Education. .“RED” exhibition- BULGARIA
2018 Cappadocia Art Initiative 2nd International Plastic Arts Exhibition-NEVŞEHİR
2017 Akdeniz University Fine Arts Faculty “Women in the Rural Area” Mixed Exhibition_ANTALYA
2016 Karatekin University Mixed Exhibition- ÇANKIRI
2013- Mixed Exhibition on Migration-BELGIUM-Heimwee
2011 1st İzmir Art Biennial- İZMİR
2010- Çorlu Culture and Art Association Mixed Exhibition-TEKİRDAĞ
2010- V Sanat-İstanbul Modern Arts Museum Mixed Exhibition through the eyes of women-İSTANBUL
2008- 9 Eylül University Graduates Exhibition-DENİZLİ
2005- Meeting 1st Mixed Exhibition-DENİZLİ
2001- 9 Eylül University Graduates Exhibition-DENİZLİ
1995- İzfaş Mixed Exhibition-İZMİR