Biography

Gulten Imamoglu was awarded as “WOMAN OF THE YEAR 2011” by American Biographical Institute, US. She was awarded as “2011 Gold Medal Turkey” passion, courage, commitment, success, excellence, virtue, spirit by American Biographical Institute, US. Her work of art entitled “Exile into Loneliness” was awarded as a first prize in the painting category of the London International Creative Competition in September 2009. In additon, she was awarded as a first prize many times in the painting category of international competitions in US. And also, Gulten Imamoglu made lots of exhibition in US (New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Florida, and Chicago), United Kingdom (London), Bulgaria and Pakhistan.

2011 Professor of Art

2005 Associate Professor of Art

2005 The first turkish painter who was invited to 53rd Sausalito Art Fair, San Francisco, CA, US

2006 Invited to 54th Sausalito Art Fair, San Francisco, CA, US.

1999 Assistant Professor.

1994-98 “Proficiency in Art-PhD” with her thesis, “The drawing education as a practice that can be developed from the objective determination techniques to the subjective expression in visual expression”.

1991-1994 Member of Fine Art Department , Faculty of Education, Ondokuz Mayis University

1991 Graduate, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Faculty of Education, Department of Art.

1970 Born in Tokat, Turkiye.

She is a member of “lnternational Association of Art” and “American Art Therapy Association”.

At present, she is working as a professor of department of Fine Arts in Istanbul University, TURKIYE.

“The artist brings together her intuitions and utopias with a spectators’ reality and associates them with the meanings of colourful and dynamic paintings. Images of the artist, which make life and death related, moreover connected, which are seen at the same platform on life and death planes equal and identical.

The artist manages to bring together dynamism of beauty with stability of death, infinity of thought with concreteness of art and the mercilessness of reality with livability of dreams. Colours are not seen as real colours in her paintings, but as a vortex reminding us of a natural disaster. Opening our eyes to far horizons, they actually deal with meaningful and unexpected blows to our inner world. Its caressing is like a heavy slap on the face, its fluidity is like an escape sometimes borrowed but intractable. To tell the truth, the painter is skilled enough to escape from us and to take shelter in her colourful universe. She likes colour countercurrents and she does not hesitate to shoot us with that gun. Defining Gülten İmamoğlu as an artist who attacks us with colours and defends herself with colours would not be wrong, as she uses her colours as an instrument for a hurtful sense, wonderful excitement, an idolized death and a livable paradise.

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Foto by Ayten Altuniç

Awards

  • 2014 TOKAT’IN EN’LERİ, ART, ISTANBUL
  • 2014 ELELE , YILIN SANATÇISI (Plastik Sanatlar) Adayı, ISTANBUL
  • 2013 “SUCCESS” ILKADIM ROTARY CLUB
  • 2011 Gold Medal Turkey Passion, Courage, Commitment, Success, Excellence, Virtue, Spirit, ABI-ABD
  • 2011 “WOMAN OF THE YEAR 2011″American Biographical Institude, Inc.USA
  • 2011 4th 2011 Showcase JURIED Winner,”Mandisire”Artslant,America
  • 2011 SAATCHI GALLERY Showdown,Top 6 Finallist.London http://magazine.saatchionline.com/articles/artnews/saatchi-online-news/showdown/saatchi-online-interviews-showdown%E2%80%99s-top-finalists
  • 2011 1st 2011 Showcase Winner,Fall Harvest,Artslant,Newyork 2011
  • 2010 Artslant Contemporary Art Network,5th Showcase JURIED Winner,America http://www.artslant.com/ew/artists/show/62913-gulten-imamoglu?tab=AWARDS
  • 2009 LICC London International Creative Competition 2009 Painting Finalist Award http://licc.us/
  • 2009 Artslant Contemporary Art Network,May Showcase Winner, America
  • 2009 Crimson Kaie | Artist of the day,4 April,London

The paintings exalt an abstract language where figures are mixed by dancing, in a sense. The artist paints color motions with a figure of fastidiousness and carries us to a perception, which is familiar to us. She concretizes the indefiniteness of figures with meaningful integrity of colours. Thus, she makes a personal, original and clear contribution to a figurative translation which we took from classism. While the paintings act as examples of the contemporariness which she had internalized, they do not estrange to the traditional art forms. Hence, on one hand they are academic, on the other hand, they wink to prodigality of a spendthrift bohemian. While they are displaying the reflections of an adventureous soul, they do not relinquish from a domestic sacred. Yes, the paintings are confidential but at the same time they make provocative eroticism as an dominant power.

The main characteristic of forms, which gives a taste of painting/sculpture, which cause misperception at first sight constitute multiple stratifications. With metastrata there are messages for the religions, for human memory/psychology, for existence, for the endless cyclus in the universe, for past and future, and especially for the time. Multiple stratifications are present in the artist’s abstractions, as in instant and memory. Every paintings have special nuclei. An overlapping of affective situation of the artist and her forms in the paintings is present. Color is the biggest gun of the artist by which while she rules paint’s own fact perfectly, she also gives a message to uncontrollable features of the time, which are speed and motion.”


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