Nevin Çokay

Nevin Çokay

Nevin Çokay in her atelier
Born 1930
Istanbul, Turkey
Died July 24, 2012(2012-07-24)
Foça, İzmir Province, Turkey
Nationality Turkish
Known for Painting
Movement The Group Ten
Website www.nevincokay.com/eeser3.asp

Nevin Çokay (born 1930-July 24, 2012) was a Turkish female painter and high school teacher for art and history of art.

Life

Çokay was born in Istanbul, and spent her childhood in different regions of Turkey. In 1947, she started to attend to the studio of Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu[1] at the Academy of Fine Arts Istanbul, which she finished in 1953. She also joined The Group Ten. Her first exhibition took place in the Gallery "Maya" in Istanbul (1953). Between 1950 and 1953 she was a member of the State Choir for Turkish folk music under the direction of Nedim Otyam. Beside the participation in concerts and folkloric arrangements e.g. in Italy, she also worked as a voice artist and acted in the film Yurda Dönüş.

After 1954 she completely devoted herself to painting. Her paintings were shown in special exhibitions of the State Museum for Painting and Sculptures Istanbul and the Biennale for Young Artist in Paris. In 1961 she won the second price of the Istanbul Art Festival. 1979 she was invited to the Netherlands, where her pictures were exhibited in different museums and galleries in Deventer, Hague and Rotterdam for the duration of one year. Her paintings are found in public and private collections in Germany and the Netherlands, in the Istanbul State Art and Sculpture Museum, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the city administration Istanbul, the University of Istanbul and the Umjetnicka Galerij in former Yugoslavia.

Nevin Çokay worked 17 years as a teacher for art and art history in high schools and gave 10 years of private painting lessons in different gallery studios. In the last years of her life, she worked in her private studio in Foça, Izmir Province.

She died at the age of 82 in Foça on July 24, 2012. Çokay was married and had a son.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Nevin Çokay, Biyografya.com, Retrieved 14 May 2016
  2. ↑ "Ressam Nevin Çokay hayatını kaybetti". Sabah (in Turkish). 2012-07-26. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
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