Artists › Elif Akçay
Elif Akçay is a figurative painter. Akçay studied painting at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul and completed a master's degree in painting there in 2025 with a thesis on the window motif in Edvard Munch's paintings. Akçay works mostly in oil on canvas; the paintings deal with space, the body and states of mind. In 2022 Akçay received the jury award named after Evin İyem at the Nuri İyem Painting Prize, and took part in the fourth round of the İyilik İçin Sanat Association's Pasajda Bir Yıl programme, whose exhibition opened at Galeri Deniz in Istanbul in 2023. Group exhibitions include Algı ve Uzam at Artsürem in Ankara (2019), Untitled 1.0 at Frank Art Studio (2021) and the Young Contemporary Artists Meeting at Lara Barut Collection (2023).
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