Tülay Dikicioğlu - Turkish Painting Association

Who is Tülay Dikicioğlu? (1962-Erzincan)

She was born in Erzincan in 1962. Due to her father’s job, she completed her primary and secondary school in various cities of Turkey and her high school education at Ankara Gazi High School. After entering the Painting Department of Gazi University Faculty of Education in 1980, she graduated in 1984. She worked as an interior architect, art teacher, art history teacher, school principal and held various positions in art commissions. She still teaches in her own studio and continues her art work.
Basically, she brings together the aesthetic beauty of female figures and the breadth of her imagination; she reflects aesthetic feelings and imaginative pictorial expression on her canvas with figures and colors.

Artistic Perspective:
While painting is revealed with a very deep and strong emotion for her, she creates sparkling, spotted and dynamic universes in her mind where figures are washed with colors, far from chaos, before her hand reaches the palette. While a picture without figures seems like a world without people to her, she definitely establishes an internal empathy with those figures and keeps them away from melancholy.

She does not confine her figures within perspective and spatial elements. They are free and most of the time “Women”. Hopeful, original and happy to exist, women are people. Since he thinks that art is a matter that exists with its audience, he strives to leave positive traces on his audience, colorful and bright, full of hope…

Projects:
April 2023: Ovooart – There is No You, No Me, We Exist
September 2020: Orange Blossom Art – @portart – Goodness is contagious
May 2006: 118-U Lions Anatolian Administrative District Federation – Lions Introduction Day Event

Solo Exhibitions:
June 2024: "A Tale of Istanbul", Anadolu Club / Büyükada / Istanbul
June 2023: "I Saw a Dream", Anadolu Club / Büyükada / Istanbul
March 2019: "Human & Human", Beyoğlu / Istanbul
November 2018: "Flowers & Women", Beyoğlu / Istanbul
January 2008: "Dance With Me", Café Tual / Ankara
April 2007: “Nostalgia”, Café Tual / Ankara
May 2006: Boutique Hotel Estela (House of the Supreme Court), Or-An / Ankara

Group Exhibitions:

December 2024: International Exhibition with the theme “Undecember”, Luna Grande Art / Kadıköy / İstanbul
October 2024: National Exhibition with the theme “Children of the Republic”, Uniart / Evrensel Art Platform
April 2024: International Exhibition with the theme “Great success of small hands”, Usart / Uniart - Toroslar / Mersin
March 2024: “Never Without Women” Online International Culture and Art Exhibition, Usart / Uniart
October 2023: “Art in the Light of the Republic” International Online Exhibition, Nakhchivan State University
September 2023: “Brotherhood of Colors” International Online Exhibition, Uniart / Usart
August 2023: “Continuing Where We Left Off” International Online Exhibition, Apollo Art House – Uniart / Usart
April 2023: “Morphosis” - International Mixed Contemporary Art Exhibition, ART Kocaeli
February 2023: Support for Disaster Areas Exhibition, ART Kocaeli
February 2023: “Frequency” Arya Kamalı International Culture and Art Center, Izmir
September - October 2022: “100. “Year” Contemporary Art Year National Online Mixed Contemporary Art Exhibition, CAP Gallery
June 2022: “Contemporary Thought” National Online Mixed Contemporary Art Exhibition, CAP Gallery
May / June 2022: “Postmodern” International Online Mixed Contemporary Art Exhibition, CAP Gallery
April / May 2022: “Sociology in Art”, CAP Gallery
March 2022: “Identity in Art” National Mixed Contemporary Art Exhibition
February 2022: “Frekans” International Contemporary Mixed Art Exhibition, ART Kocaeli - Gar Art Gallery Kocaeli / İZMİT
May 2021: “Hello Summer on Mars”, My Picture Paradise
April 2021: International Painting - Sculpture Exhibition www.eskisehirsanatdernegi.org / E-Gallery
August 2020: 1. Virtual Exhibition Sweet Dreams “Diamoongallery”
June 2020: “Life with Corona” International Virtual Exhibition, My Painting Heaven / Izmir
May 2020: “Colors of Life” International Virtual Exhibition, My Painting Heaven / Izmir
March 2019: “My Woman” Ramada Hotel / Adana
March 2019: “My Woman” Nishart – Tesvikiye / Istanbul
March 2018: “Art Flow” La Visione Art Gallery – Nisantasi / Istanbul
January 2018: “Finger Print” Nishart Macka Gallery – Nisantasi / Istanbul
May 2004: Music Culture Festival / Ankara
November 2003: Teachers’ Paintings Exhibition / Ankara
May 2002: Music and Culture Festival / Ankara