Serap Kokten

She was born in İstanbul, Turkey, on May 31. Kökten attended the Yeditepe University, Faculty of Fine Arts and graduated from the Department of Plastic Arts. Then, she got sketch training from illustrator Ufuk Suçsuzer, theoretical and practical lessons from worthy teachers like Prof. Zahit Büyükişleyen, Ergin İnan, Canan Beykal, Kaya Özsezgin, Prof. M. Turan Aksoy, Sinan Demirtaş, Ferhat Özgür. Visual example in Rh+ Art magazine, YKY Art World, Ayrıntı magazine, Hürriyet Show magazine, Lebriz and Artfulliving online magazines some articles in  used artist's works. Her portfolio has been the subject of symposium article "Many Esthetic Recommendations for the Collectors" which was presented at Ankara University, Faculty of Languages and History-Geography, Department of Art History, VII. International Young Art Historians Symposium. Some of her works were included in the book 'Contemporary Rhetoric of Aesthetics' in 2016 and used as cover photograph. "Geography is Destiny" named work was used as a visual example in the book introduction published on independent news site T24 by author Murat Bjeduğ for the book "Cereyanlar" by author Tanıl Bora. The same year writer Murat Bjeduğ published in his columns at T24 independent news website...

Master's Degree - Yeditepe University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Plastic Arts.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2019 'Symbolist Images', ACS Art Gallery, Adana
2015 'Symbolist Images', Gallery Eksen, Istanbul
2008 'The Tide Inside Us', Utopya Art Gallery, Istanbul
2008 'The Tide Inside Us', Tasmekan Art Gallery, Adana
2007 'The Tide Inside Us', Icel Art Club, Teoman Unusan Art Gallery, Mersin

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Summer Art Bodrum - Titanic Deluxe Bodrum, Maji Art Gallery
2021 IAAF Istanbul Art and Antique Fair / BBProjecTT Art, Lutfu Kirdar Convention and Exhibition Center, Istanbul
2021 Artweeks @ Akaretler, BBprojecTT Art, Istanbul
2020 MCART AWARDS 2020, Art.ist Sauna, UNIQ Expo, Istanbul
2019 Istanbul Art Show, 'Truth Suspends', Art in the Age of Post Truth, Hilton Exhibition Center, Gallery Baraz, Istanbul
2019 Artweeks @ Akaretler, Gallery Baraz, Istanbul
2018 'New December'/'New Space', Gallery Abstract, Çankaya/Ankara
2018 'Art Flow', La Vision Art Gallery, Istanbul
2017 Ecn Group Painting Exhibition, Ecn Art Gallery, Izmir
2015 Continuous Sensation, Cermodern, Ankara
2014 Time in Yeditepe IV- 'Polyphonic Approaches', EKAV Art Gallery, Istanbul
2014 'Hey, I'm here' Group Exhibition, Halic Shipyard, Istanbul
2014 Lutfi Kırdar International Convention and Exhibition Center, Art Fair, Istanbul
2011 Violence Agai...