İlhami Atalay
Born in Artvin Arhavi in 1948, İlhami Atalay graduated from Istanbul State Fine Arts Academy in 1972. In the same year he won a residency scholarship and worked in painting and wall carpeting fields at the Berlin State Academy of Fine Arts and Applied Arts Academy between 1973 and78. In 1975, in France, in 1976, in Switzerland and in Spain, in 1977, in England, he conducted research and examination of painting, textile, and wall carpet fields.
He returned to Turkey in 1978 and worked in various state institutions for compulsory service. Between 1981 and 1983 he worked as a freelance carpet Designer in Isparta. In 1983 he returned to Istanbul and started painting. In 1984, he opened the İlhami Atalay Art Gallery in Sultanahmet and started to raise students. Then he formed the dynamism group.
Some of the works of Atalay, who participated in many exhibitions organized in Turkey and abroad since 1963 and continued to work in his Gallery, are exhibited in Special Collections.
The exhibitions and competitions he attended:
1963 Artvin High School painting competition second place
1969 Academy pattern competition honorable mention
1970 Ahmet Andiçen competition silver medal
1970 Cevat Dereli workshop first prize
1971 Can İren first Prize
1971 Exhibition of “brain machine” at the City Gallery Group exhibition
1972 graduation from the Academy, success in the European test
1975-78 participation in Berlin art festivals
1976 participation in the Berlin Academy collective art exhibition
1977 XII. She represented Turkey at the International Monte Carlo Art Festival
1978 personal exhibition on “movement and time” at the Istanbul State Fine Arts Gallery
1978 Istanbul Art Festival, Mixed Exhibition of Artists Association
1978 Intercontinental Hotel Exhibition of Turkish Nature Conservation Association
1978 The Society of Arts Plastic Arts Exhibition.
1979 Izmir İş Art Gallery Exhibition
1979 painting-Carpet exhibition at Istanbul is Art Gallery with the announcement of “new dynamism”.
1979 a personal exhibition called “Devr-i Maymun” at Kızıltoprak Art Gallery.
1979 Taksim Art Gallery” anchovy and dynamism “is a personal exhibition.
1979 Ankara Red Crescent Art Gallery Exhibition
1979 state Painting Sculpture exhibition, “New dynamism” painting to the museum collection.
1979 Munich Exhibition at the Universal Turkish Art Congress
1980 Izmir Painting Sculpture Museum “dynamism” personal exhibition
1980 Ankara State Fine Arts Gallery “dynamism” personal exhibition
1981 Isparta, Painting-Carpet Designs Exhibition.
1983 17th DYO painting exhibition
1983 V. Golden Palette Award
1983 METEKSAN design competition award
1984 Yunus Emre Festival of Culture and Arts
1984 ENKA Art and Science awards exhibition
1984 the opening of İlhami Atalay art gallery and the continuous Exhibition
1985 Contemporary Artists Exhibition
1985” dynamism colorful “personal exhibition at Istanbul Fine Arts Gallery
1985 19th DYO painting exhibition
1985 “Anatolian” personal painting exhibition at İş Art Gallery
1985 Kazım Tashkent Art Gallery” dynamism” is a personal exhibition.
1985 exhibition at Galerie Stauffacher (Zurich, Switzerland)
1986 Akbank Art Gallery painting exhibition
1986 participation in the State Painting Sculpture exhibition
1986 painting exhibition at the Palace de la Gare (Aix-les Bains, France)
1986 participation in the Jockey Club painting exhibition
1986 “these are our women” personal painting exhibition at Taksim Art Gallery
1987 painting exhibition at the Faculty of Medicine in Çapa
1987 Yunus Emre art festival
1987”tutto” group exhibition at Gallery extra (Taranto, Italy)
1987 “Aspetti Dell Informale” group exhibition at Galeria d'arte Dimensiole (Lecce, Italy).
1988 Artisti dell’Arca (Taranto, Italy) “Alla Luce i Fatti Larealia - La Fantasia province Quotidiano Moviment Etendenze” exhibition by the group.
1989 2nd Istanbul Culture and Art Festival Painting Exhibition
1990 mixed Exhibition for the benefit of the children with leukemia Foundation at Yıldız Palace.
1991 mixed exhibition entitled “Excellency Mevlana” at Istanbul Press Museum.
1992 painting exhibition in Château de Avrille (Anger, France)
1992 painting exhibition at Deutsch Bank (Luwgshen Oppau, Germany)
1994 Turkish-Islamic Arts Exhibition at Altunizade Cultural Center of The Historical Research Foundation.
1996 mixed exhibition at İlhami Atalay Art Gallery.
1996 painting exhibition at Ankara Hilton Hotel to mark the Turkish Convention
1996 painting Exhibition in Istanbul Conrad hotel to mark the Turkish Congress
1996 Anhui Museum and painting exhibitions in the city of Suchou as a guest of the People's Republic of China
1996 20th Arhavi Festival (Artvin) group exhibition
1996 group exhibition at Sarıyer Cultural Center.
1996 group exhibition at Gölcük Festival.
1996 Akbank Adapazarı Art Gallery group exhibition
1997 painting exhibition at Taksim Art Gallery
1997 group exhibition at Çorlu Akbank Art Gallery
1998 Arhavi Cultural Festival (Artvin) group exhibition
2000 8th.Group exhibition at the Turkish Congress (Samsun)
2001 “synthesis from our culture” exhibition by Turkish World Artists Association in Istanbul
2002 group exhibition at Mahfel Mado Art Gallery (Bursa)
2002 Kunst Galerie in Anatolia (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) “Anatolian breezes” group exhibition
2004 Kunst Galerie in Anatolia (Rotterdam, Netherlands) “impressions from Anatolia” group exhibition
2008 Gulf Art Fair (Dubai) family exhibition
2010 1st. Mixed exhibition at the International Istanbul Triennial
2011 İlhami Atalay Art Gallery “the worlds” personal painting exhibition
2014 Marmara University rectorship building 8th Erguvan Exhibition
