Ramiz Aydın

Ramiz Aydın (1937–2023) was a painter and art educator. Born in Espiye, a district of Giresun, Aydın graduated from the Department of Painting at the Gazi Institute of Education in 1961. From 1982 to 2004 Aydın headed the Painting Program at the Istanbul Atatürk Institute of Education and in the Department of Fine Arts Education at Marmara University's Atatürk Faculty of Education; Aydın became an associate professor in 1987 and a professor in 1995. Aydın held more than forty solo exhibitions and in 1987 won first prize at an exhibition on the theme of the March to Independence and the War of Liberation.