Funda Alkan

Funda Alkan was born in Izmir in 1985. She finished Alsancak Cumhuriyet Anadolu Vocational High School in 2003. She graduated from the Painting-Work Teaching Department in the Buca Institute of Education at Dokuz Eylül University in 2007. Since then, she has continued her master’s degree at the Painting Department in the Faculty of Fine Arts of Dokuz Eylül University. Alkan has had several solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in Turkey. In 2007, she won a special prize from the Turgut Pura Foundation in the 26th Painting Sculpture Competition.

Exhibitions:
2005, Group sculpture exhibition, the World University Games
2005, Performance exhibition “colorful breathing from notes”
2006, Exhibition of Bedri Karayağmurlar Painting Workshop
2006, Group Monoprinting Exhibition, Konak Municipality Alsancak Culture Center
2007, Street exhibition and performance, 6th Alsancak Festival (22,23,24 May)
2007, National Painting and Sculpture Competition Exhibition, Narlıdere Municipality
2007, Group exhibition, the Buca Institute of Education Gallery
2007, Group exhibition, Izmir Painting Sculpture Museum
2007, Solo exhibition, Bostanlı Fine Arts Exhibition Hall
2007, Solo exhibition, Sardunya’s
2008, Group exhibition, Mücait Bora Gallery
2009, Group exhibition “Bakış-İz-Bellek”, Ahmet Adnan Saygun Art Gallery
2009, Group exhibition, which was organized within the Armağan Project for the Nesin Foundation, Istanbul Historical Sümer Bank
2009, “Corridor Exhibition”, the Painting Department in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Dokuz Eylül University
2009, Group exhibition “Art for Health”, which was organized for the Izmir Atatürk Education and Research Hospital
2009, Turgut Pura Foundation, “Painting Sculpture Competition Exhibition”
2009, Izmir Historical Gas Factory, Culture Art Center, group painting exhibition
2010, Çanakkale State Fine Arts Gallery “Open City-Açık Şehir”, contemporary art exhibition
2013, "The Cage", Daire Gallery, Istanbul

Reference: dairesanat.com, fundaalkann.blogspot.com