MELİHA SÖZERİ

1982 born in Antalya, Turkey

Akademi 

2017- ...      Assist. Prof.,  TC. Altınbas University, Fine Art and Design Faculty

2015-2017 Assistant, İstanbul Kemerburgaz University, Fine Art and Design Faculty

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Education

2012-2016   D.F.A. (Doctor of Fine Arts) Program, Marmara University Fine Arts Institute Department of Sculpture

2004-2007   Marmara University Fine Arts Institute - Department of Sculpture, Master degree (M.F.A)

2000-2004   Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty - Department of Sculpturesculpture department with first degree.

Master (M.F.A) Thesis / Arcisculpture Forms in Architecture from 1970’s

Proficiency in Arts – Doctor of Fine Arts (D.F.A) Thesis / The Artworks Which Turns The Plastic Perception Inside Out in Contemporary Sculpture

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Solo Exhibition

2018 "Toz / Dust", Bozlu Art Project, İstanbul

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Selected Exhibitions Activities

2019 11. Uluslararası Love 360 Fest, “You're The Hero” Exhibition / “Kahraman Sensin” Sergisi, The Marmara Pera, İstanbul

2018 Contemporary Venice”, 5 December 2018- 11 January 2019, Venice, Italy

2018 Düş / Fall Dream”, 1-2 December 2018, Macau T-Theater, China

2018 Düş / Fall Dream”, 21 November 2018 Koç Üniversitesi, 23-24 November 2018 Bomonti Alt, İstanbul

2018 Surfaces, Spaces”, 17 Eylül 2018-25 Kasım 2018, Ca’Zanardi’, Venice, Italy

2018 CI Contemporary İstanbul”, Sanat Fuarı, 20-23 Eylül 2018, Lütfü Kırdar Kongre Merkezi; İstanbul

2018 “Mad World”, Bozlu Art Project, İstanbul

2018 “Aborda” Sculpture Exhibition, CKM, İstanbul

2018 “Mamut Art Project 2018”, Guest Artist, GiziaGate Nişantaşı, İstanbul

2018 “Join The Dots – Connect the Distances”  ,Turkish Imago Mundi Collection”,  Salone degli Incanti, Trieste, Italy

2018 “Tasarım Tomtom Sokakta”, İstanbul

2018 "Eşit-siz", TC. Altınbaş Üniversitesi Bakırköy Yerleşkesi, İstanbul

2017 "Pillow", İstanbul Concept Gallery, İstanbul

2017 "Body- The Present Flowing Into The Past"/ Performans Installation, Past Meets Present, Anna Laudel Contemporary, Istanbul 

2017 o+oma+a, Mixer, Istanbul

2017 Görsav/Görsel Sanat Vakfı, Bodrum Meeting Mixed Exhibition, Bodrum

2017 CI Art. Stories. İstanbul. Contemporary Istanbul , Bozlu Art Project, Istanbul

2017 Sosyomanya, Bozlu Art Project, Istanbul

2017 The 8th International Mini Textile Art Exhibition "Scythia", June 19-July 2, 2017 Kherson, Ukraine

2017 “Heykel Sanatının Ustalarına Saygı , Auguste Rodin’in ve Camille Claudel’in Anısına”, 9th Terrace Exhibitions , Elgiz Museum, İstanbul

2017 The 8th International Mini Textile Art Exhibition "Scythia", July 15-30 Ivano-Frankivs’k Ukraine

2017 “Imago Mundi  Luciano Benotton Collection” / “Istanbul Codex Contemporary Artists from Turkey”, Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, “Imago Mundi Rotte Mediterranee”, Cantieri Culturali Alla Zisa, Palermo, Italy

2017 “Hep Birlikte/ All of Us” MKM Beşiktaş Contemporary Art Gallery, İstanbul

2017 9. Uluslararası Love 360 Fest, “Refuse” Exhibition / “Reddetmek” Sergisi,360 Beyoğlu, İstanbul

2016 26th International Istanbul Art Fair /Artist 2016 – “Genişleyebilir Büyüklük / Partes Extra Partes”, TÜYAP, İstanbul

2016 Tell Me The Truth, Please, Vis Art, İstanbul

2016 Fear, Bozlu Art Project, İstanbul

2016 Aporias, Friday Exit (in collaboration with Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Wien

2016 Think Again" Mixed Works Exhibition, Galeri RA, İstanbul

2016 A Remix Of The Local, Art Base Project, İstanbul

2016 Pluralist Quest, Vis Art Gallery, İstanbul

2016 "Reverberate Deny", Güzelyalı Cultural Centre Art Gallery, İzmir

2015 "Urban-Stone", TMMOB Chamber of Architects, İstanbul

2015 "On Fertile Lands, Art 01", Adana Contemporary Art Meetings, Adana

2015 25th International Istanbul Art Fair / Artist 2015, Karşı Sanat Çalışmaları – TÜYAP, İstanbul

2015 Up in the Air, Art 50, İstanbul

2015 Hidden, ALAN ISTANBUL, Overthose, İstanbul

2015 nev Nesil, "Amusement Park", Galeri Nev, Ankara

2015 İstanbul Kemerburgaz University  Fine Arts and Design Faculty Stuff Members Exhibition 

2015 "Jeunes Artistes Contemporains de Turquie Nouvelle Génération", Les galeries Od'A-Ouvroir d'Art, Istanbul

           New Generation Young Contemporary Artists in Turkey,  Od'A-Ouvroir d'Art Gallery, Istanbul

2015 Redefining the Space of Everyday Life, GAIA Gallery, Istanbul

2015 Before The Rain, Gallery 5,Istanbul

2014 24th International Istanbul Art Fair / Artist 2014, Karşı Sanat Çalışmaları – TÜYAP, İstanbul

2014 Me, always a LessMore, Muse İstanbul, İstanbul

2014 Young Sculpture, Nişantaşı Artpark, İstanbul

2014 Ben-Me, Art 212, Bodrum

2014 Terrace Exhibitions <40, Proje 4L, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, İstanbul

2014 Mamut Art Project, İstanbul

2013 Steel and Life, Sculpture Exhibition, Tophane-i Amire Culture and Art Center, İstanbul

2012 Terrace Exhibitions <40, Proje 4L, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, İstanbul

2012 “Meeting of Poem and Sculpture - Inspiration or Devil”, Mixed Exhibition, İstanbul

2012 “Internal Sea” 40 Women 40 Life 40 Story , Mixed exhibition, Sefaköy Culture Art Center, İstanbul

2011 “8- Sign” Mixed Exhibition , Artgalerim, İstanbul.

2011 “Young Sculpture II”, Çırağan Palace Kempinski Sculpture Gallery, İstanbul

2011 “The Impact of Esprit in Art”, Panel, Silivri, İstanbul

2010 “Fiction”, Mixed Exhibition, İstanbul

2009 “Confrontation” (Performance), Gölcük

2009 “No Water Commercializing Platform”, Mixed Exhibition, YTÜ, İstanbul

2008 68th Government Paint-Sculpture Exhibition, İzmir

2007 67th Government Paint-Sculpture Exhibition, Ankara

2007 “Art in Akmerkez V”, Mixed Exhibition, İstanbul

2006 16th Istanbul Art Fair, Society of Sculptor, TUYAP, Istanbul

2006 “Art in Akmerkez IV”, Mixed Exhibition, İstanbul

2005 Merfes Sculpture Symposium, Afyon

2004 “Art in Akmerkez II”, Mixed Exhibition, İstanbul

2004 “Zap Project”, Mixed Exhibition, İstanbul

2004 “Mixed”, Mixed Paint and Sculpture Exhibition, Istanbul

2002 International University’s Introduction Fair, temporary project, Antalya

2001 39th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, Mixed Exhibition, Antalya

2000 38th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, Mixed Exhibition, Antalya

Activities

2017 City of Dreams Workshop XII / Kent Düşleri Atölyesi XII,"Share", Workshop Lead, TMMOB Chamber of Architects, İstanbul

2015 "Sculpture, Architecture, Space",  Workshop, İstanbul Technical University, Architecture Faculty, İstanbul

2015 City of Dreams Workshop X / Kent Düşleri Atölyesi X,"Space for Freedom of the City", Workshop Lead, TMMOB Chamber of Architects, İstanbul

2015 Arcisculpture Forms in Architecture Seminar, Ozyegin University Architecture and Design Faculty

2014 6th Artists Congress / 6. Sanatçılar Kurultayı; Autonomous Art Council / Özerk Sanat Konseyi (consultant member)

2012 City of Dreams Workshop / Kent Düşleri Atölyesi, Art Consultant,TMMOB Chamber of Architects, İstanbul

2011 “Sculpture for Urban”, Urban, Culture, Democracy Forum /Kent Kültür Demokrasi Forumu, Chamber of Architects, İstanbul

2011  “The Humor of The Effect of the Art” / “Mizahın Sanat Alanlarına Etkisi”, Panel, Silivri, İstanbul

2009 “Freedom, Autonomy and Art” Panel, Presentation, Chamber of Architects, İstanbul

2002  Introduction of Fair International Universities, Temporary project, Antalya

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Awards

2007 Kemal TÜRKLER National Monumental Grave Competition First Price, Chamber of Architects, İstanbul

2013 Steel and Life, Sculpture Competition, Honorable Mention

2015 "New Generation Young Contemporary Artists in Turkey",  Od'A-Ouvroir d'Art Gallery - Maçka Sanat Gallery,1st Honorable Mention

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Symposiums

2018 Çukurova University 2. International Art Research Symposium, Adana

          Title: "Evaluation of The Works of Anish Kapoor in Context of the Contemporary Art"

2017 Görsel Sanatlar Eğitimi Sempozyumu, Görsel Sanatlar Eğitiminde Çağdaş Sanatın Yeri, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale 

          Title: "Sanat Eğitimi İçerisinde Yaratıcılığın Çağdaş Sanat İçin Önemi"

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Writings

2017 "Ortak Atölye: Çizim-Mekan-Müzik-Beden-Dans-Performans", Meliha Sözeri, Sernaz Demirel, Tan Temel, Yiğit Özatalay, Kent Düşleri Atölyeleri XII, Paylaşmak Kataloğu, TMMOB Chamber of Architects, İstanbul, September 2017, p.19-23 

2017 “Mehmet Aksoy / Çekiç Seslerini Düşleyen Vagon Yolculuğu”, Yeni E Aylık Kültür Sanat Edebiyat Dergisi, April 2017, No:6, p. 12-15

2017 “K.M.B.D.H”, Yeni E  Aylık Kültür Sanat Edebiyat Dergisi, January 2017, No:3, p. 51-53

2016 "Görme Hakkı", Evrensel Kültür Journal, No: 291, March 2016

2015 "Savaş Neden Nasıl Barış", Tiroj Journal, No: 76, September-October 2015

2015 The Artworks Which Turns The Spatial Perception Inside Out In Contemporary Art From Grand Palais 'Monumenta Series’ And Turbine Hall ‘The Unilever Series' Exhibitions, Meliha Sözeri-Nilüfer Ergin Doğruer, 

Ress Journal, Sayı: 4, Yıl: 2015,http://www.ressjournal.com/Makaleler/655167808_29%20Meliha%20SÖZERİ%20ÖZÇELİK.pdf 

2015 Yigit Ozatalay:  heavier than words; lighter than sound, Evrensel Kültür Journal, September 2015, p.50-54

2014 With Prof. Dr. Kıymet Giray about International Aspat Sculpture Symposium,“ Create Awareness of Accumulation of Memory ”, Conversation, Mimarist Journal, Year: 14, No: 50, Summer 2014, p.30-36

2011 “We Break Down in Order To Face”, Mimarist Journal, Year: 11, No: 40, Summer 2011, p.87-89

2010 Mimarist Journal Issue Editor “City, Architecture and Sculpture” Year 10, no. 35, Spring 2010, p. 51-101

2010 Mimarist Journal “Three-Dimensional View of The City” Year 10, no.35, Spring 2010, p.64-72

2008 “Intersections….The Relationship Between Sculpture, Architecture”, Mimarlıkta Malzeme Journal, Year:8, No: 8, Spring 2008, p.22-35

2007 “The Conversion of Images of Reality”, Mimarist Journal, Year: 7, No: 26, Winter 2007, p. 15-18

2007 “Kemal Türkler Mausoleum Design-  The Form of a Struggling Life!”, Meliha Sözeri Kemal Türkler Mausoleum Design 1. Awards, Letters to the Architect / Mimarlara Mektup,

http://www.mimarist.org/mmektup/index.cfm?sayi=58&RecID=1500