Saliha Yilmaz

Born in 1985 in Balıkesir, Saliha Yılmaz graduated from Yeditepe University Faculty of Fine Arts Department of Plastic Arts. In 2016, she completed her M.F.A. at the same university’s Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Plastic Arts. In the same year Yılmaz participated to the artist residency program “Once Upon a Time in Dartmoor” organized by Gerrit Rietveld Academy in the Netherlands and taking place at the European Exchange Academy in the UK. In 2015 she was invited by Red Horse, a fashion brand from Beijing, to take part in an art event. In 2014 she participated to the 6th Portakal Çiçeği Worksop taking place in Sapanca with the International Plastic Arts Colony.

Yılmaz describes her artistic practice in the following words:

“In my works, I use various methods like painting, drawing, ceramic and light art in combination. I adopt a critical approach particularly towards the issues of identity within the urban and the social contexts. I focus on hybrid individuals by using forms of flowers, plants, animals or buildings to represent them.

Although in my oeuvre I also use clay modeling, oil painting, drawing and lighting effects, I mostly prefer using painting and clay in conjunction with form, color and structure....

2016 - MFA, Yeditepe University, Plastic Arts,
(painting-sculpture-ceramic)
2009 - BA, Yeditepe University, Plastic Arts
(painting-sculpture-ceramic)
2009 - BA, Yeditepe University, Fashion and Textile
Design, (double major)
2003 - High School of Fine Arts, Painting

2018 - Dinamo 3, Buyuk Efes Sanat, Swiss Otel İzmir
Tomtom Gardens Kırmızı, Art50, İstanbul
A Space of One’s Own, Solo show, Yeditepe
University Art Gallery, Istanbul
Contemporary İstanbul, Sevil Dolmacı Art Gallery,
İstanbul
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Art50, Casa dell’ Arte
Hotel of Arts & Leisure, Bodrum
Tomtom Gardens Kırmızı, Sevil Dolmacı Art
Gallery, İstanbul

2017 - Tomorrow, Gaia Gallery, Plato Sanat, İstanbul
Tuyap Art Fair, Galeri Bu, Istanbul
Powdery Pink, Buyukdere35, Istanbul
METU Art18, Middle East Technical University,
Culture/Convention Center, Ankara

2016 - Profiler, Art50, Galeri Bu, Istanbul
Tomtom Gardens Kırmızı, Sevil Dolmacı Art
Gallery, İstanbul

A Remix of the Local, Sevil Dolmacı Art Base
Project, Istanbul


2015 - Breath Vol3, Merkur Gallery, Istanbul
Contemporary İstanbul, Merkur Gallery, Istanbul
IV. Orange Blossom International Plastic Arts
Colony, 6th Year, Ankara
Up in the Air, Art50, Vogue Restaurant, Istanbul
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