Life

She graduated from American College for Girls in 1959. She continued her education in plastic arts at the Oklahoma State University with a BFA, and California College of Arts and Crafts during 1962-64. She completed her MA in plastic arts in University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

 in 1965.

Career

Her first personal exhibition was held in 1966, at the İstanbul Devlet Güzel Sanatlar Gallery. From then on she had numerous personal and collective exhibitions all over the world, including England, France, Egypt, Algeria and the United States. Some of her works are included in the Elgiz Collection and displayed at the Proje4L / Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art

Proje4L / Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art

Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art is a private collection museum, founded by Dr. Can Elgiz.The museum opened in 2001, when there were no non-profit institutions in Turkey dedicated to contemporary art...

 in Istanbul.

She began to work at MSU Sculpture and Painting Museum (Resim Heykel muzesi) as Director Assistant in 1980.
Then in 1984, she became the Culture, Press and Foreign Relations Director at Yildiz Technical University

Yildiz Technical University

Yildiz Technical University is a technical university dedicated to engineering sciences and is one of the most prominent educational institutions in Istanbul, Turkey. The central campus lies within the Beşiktaş district.-History:Yildiz Technical University has a distinguished history which began...

.
She became a professor in 1993.

Apart from her work as an artist, she has written numerous essays on Museum Studies, and organized and held many conferences with notable figures.

She founded the first Museology

Museology

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 department in Turkey in Yildiz University. She is currently the dean of the Art and Design Faculty in Yildiz University, and the tutor of Museums and Museology course in the said department.

She has also attended to artistic activities in Romania

Romania

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 and Greece

Greece

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 as a representative of Turkey and curated many exhibitions for Turkish Ministry of Culture.

External links

• "Tomur Atagok", Artnet