Nevhiz Tanyeli

Nevhiz Tanyeli, one of the most prominent names from the show “Dream and Reality’, organized in 2011 by İstanbul Modern consisting only of female artists, is being hosted by Galeri Nev after an interval of three years. School mates with artists such as Mehmet Güleryüz, Neş’e Erdok and Nur Koçak, Nev opens its 2014-2015 season by bringing to daylight for the first time the paintings of Tanyeli, kept in France for many years. In the works of Nevhiz Tanyeli, which shift within an infinite dimension, from extending confidence and uneasiness, from protection to threat, the human body assumes a critical identity. The world consisting of colours and lines that at times flow gently within undefined spaces, or extend beyond their shapes, is formed as it spouts from the depths of both imagination and of conscience.
Nevhiz Tanyeli graduated from the İstanbul State Fine Arts Academy. Between the years 1971-1975 she studied painting, lithography and stained glass at the Ecole Nationale Supéieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Returning to Turkey in 1976, she thought at Marmara University between 1978-1985 and at the Mimar Sinan University between 1996-1997. In 1999 she took up position as the Dean of the Fine Arts Faculty of Mersin University.In 2002 she took part in the show “Pankart: Politics in Art on the Threshold of 1980s” organized by the Nev Gallery. She was awarded the 2003 Sedat Simavi Visual Arts Prize with her retrospective show opened at the Milli Reasürans Art Gallery that same year. Her works, along with other significant works of art included within its collection, were exhibited at the “New Horizons”, the show marking the 5th anniversary of İstanbul Modern as well as at the “Dream and Reality”. She was elected the honorary artist of this year’s International Art Fair, ARTIST and figured among the distinguished guests of the Aspat International Open Air Painting Symposium. The exhibition including canvases, works on paper, as well as sketches, allowing the viewer to witness Nevhiz Tanyeli’s painting adventure from her very early years to the present (1964-2004) will remain open until the end of November.