Meltem Karakuyu

Meltem Karakuyu (1986, Turkey) is an award-winning artist living and working in Prague, Czechia. Her works are primarily about the movement, deformation and transformations of the urban phenomenon from past to the present. All this form change within the urban structure consists of layers of lines and form layers that are reconstructed on the abstract plane, just like the layers added during the construction of each new civilization on the previous one.
Today, this phenomenon of change from line to paint has begun to be presented with a new expression through the female body.The fact that the place of the female body in the social structure is still being questioned at a time when the world has evolved into a posthuman structure and the hiding instinct that is constantly placed on the woman's self is the starting point of her paintings. Therefore, the effort to transform the body of a woman, which is being kept secret, into a resilient body by the woman, is identified with nature in these paintings. In this sense, the mechanical human body, which does not belong to a certain identity in the posthuman structure, turns into an organic structure this time. The woman, who is expected to be constantly passive, undergoes the change she d...

PhD in Faculty of Art and Design, Yıldız Teknik University, 2017

MA in Fine Arts Education, Uludağ University, 2012

BA in Fine Arts Education, Dokuz Eylül University, 2007

AWARDS

2014 Curator award for "Perspective-Reverspectiv" exhibition, Uludag University, TURKEY

2014 Young Scientist and Artist Award, Uludag University, , TURKEY

2012 Master Degree Success award Uludag University, Bursa, TURKEY

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND COMPETITIONS

2020 Kybele themed group exhibition, Trump Art Gallery, Istanbul, TURKEY

2019 Artist 29th International Istanbul Art Fair, TUYAP Fair and Congress Center, Istanbul, TURKEY

2018 Artist 28th International Istanbul Art Fair, TUYAP Fair and Congress Center, Istanbul,TURKEY

2018 1st International Printmaking Competition Exhibition Small, Trakya University Faculty of Fine Arts, Balkan Congress Center, TURKEY

2018 IVth International Afro-Eurasian Studies Congress Exhibition, Budapest, HUNGARY

2018 EXHIPORT Paper Works Exhibition, Made by Artist VIIth International Paris Art and Design Symposium, Pinelo Art Gallery, Paris, FRANCE

2018 2nd International Art, Aesthetics Symposium and Exhibition, Firat University, TURKEY

2018 International Group Exhibition, Pinelo Art Gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN

2018 ARTANKARA 4th International Contemporary Art Fair, TURKEY

2018 New Generation Painters Exhibition, Arda Art Gallery, ANKARA, TURKEY

2018 UPSD World Art Day Exhibition, UPSD Gallery, ISTANBUL, TURKEY

2018 International Women's Day Exhibition, Giresun University Rectorate Foyer Area, TURKEY

2018 Local Codes Global Forms Mixed Art Exhibition, Şişli Municipality Art Gallery, Ista...