Gülten İmamoğlu
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.
