Biography

Filiz Ankaç was born in Istanbul (1963). She graduated from Mimar Sinan University Fine Arts Faculty, Painting Department Neşet Günal/Neşe Erdok Atelier (1987).

She took her masters degree from the Plastic Arts Department of the Fine Arts and Design Faculty of Near East University (2012).

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Individual Exhibitions

1989 – Nicosia, Fluxus Art Gallery.

1994 – Nicosia, HP Gallery.

2012 – Famagusta, Eastern Mediterranean University, Art and Design Centre Exhibition Hall.

Group Exhibitions

1987 – Mimar Sinan University Fine Arts Faculty, Gravure Atelier Group Exhibition, Atatürk Cultural Centre Exhibition Hall, İstanbul.

1987 – Mimar Sinan University Fine Arts Faculty, Neşe Erdok Atelier Group Exhibition, Evin Gallery, İstanbul.

1988 – “2. Exhibition” İstanbul State Fine Arts Academy Cypriot Graduates Exhibition, AKM Exhibition Hall, Nicosia.

1988 – “Contemporary Art Exhibition” (I.) Fluxus Group Painting Exhibition, Fluxus Art Gallery, Nicosia.

1990 – “SANATTA EROTİZM 1. Uluslararası Sergisi/1. International Erotic Art Exhibition” AKM Exhibition Hall, Nicosia.

1991 – International Art Foundation, “CONTEMPORARY TURKISH CYPRIOT ART EXHIBITON, Turkish Cypriot Art / 91” CRYPT GALLERY, London.

1991 – TRNC VI. State Painting and Sculpture Exhibition / Nicosia, AKM Exhibition Hall.

1991 – “An Outlook on Turkish Cypriot Painting/ Kıbrıs Türk Resmine Bir Bakış” HP Gallery, Nicosia.

1992 – “BRUSHSTROKES ACROSS CULTURES” Famagusta Gate Art Gallery, Nicosia.

1993 – “Art - Nature Workshop” HP Gallery, Nicosia.

1994 – “Pattern in Turkish Cypriot Painting” HP Gallery, Nicosia.

1995 – I. International Famagusta Culture Art and Tourism Festival Painting Exhibition, Famagusta Municipality Osman Gökçe Exhibition Hall, Famagusta.

1995 – TRNC Painters Group Exhibition, State Fine Arts Gallery, İstanbul.

1995 – TRNC Painters Painting Exhibition, State Painting Sculpture Museum, İzmir.

1996 – Turkish Cypriot Secondary Education Teachers Union I. Painting–Sculpture Exhibition, AKM Exhibition Hall, Nicosia.

1996 – “Plant a Tree” HP Gallery, Nicosia.

1998 – “Eski ve Uzak/Old and Remote” Near East University Atatürk Congress Centre Exhibition Hall, Nicosia.

2000 – Turkish Cypriot Secondary Education Teachers Union IV. Painting – Sculpture Exhibition, AKM Exhibition Hall, Nicosia.

2000 – “TRANSITIVITY” Famagusta Art Association, Twin Churches, Famagusta.

2006 – ‘‘Incapability’’ Famagusta Art Association, Twin Churches, Famagusta. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INXR3W8EP30

2011 – “Paper Works” AKM Exhibition Hall, Nicosia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiF6o5_iWA8

2011 – 20. İstanbul Book and Art Fair / TRNC Pavilion / İstanbul.

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Prizes

1989 – Turkish Bank Culture Art Award.

1991 – TRNC VI. State Painting and Sculpture Exhibition Award.

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In Publications

1990 – “SANATTA EROTİZM 1. ULUSLARARASI SERGİSİ, 1. INTERNATIONAL EROTIC ART EXHIBITION” Erotic Art International Exhibition Organisation Committee, İstanbul, p. 35

1994 – “Turkish Plastic Artists Encyclopaedic Dictionary” Yapı Kredi Publications, İstanbul, p.37–38

1994 – “Pattern in Turkish Painting Desen Exhibition” HP Gallery Nicosia, p.1

1998 – “TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN CYPRUS PARLIAMENT PAINTING COLLECTION” TRNC Speaker’s Office, İstanbul, p.88

2005 – “Yirminci Yüzyıl’da Kıbrıs Sanatı/Cyprus Art in the 20th Century” UNOPS/BDP Nicosia, p.145

2006 – “in-capability” Öncü Printhouse, Ankara, p.13-16

2008 – “EMAA Art Journal, May 2008, Issue 8” Ankara, p.100

2009 – “EMAA Art Journal, May 2009, Issue 10” Ankara, p.93

2010 – “ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VISUAL ARTISTS” Doruk Publishing, İstanbul, p.56

2012 – “VIOLENCE AS AN EXPRESSION IN PORTRAIT” Thesis Study, NEU Nicosia

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Catalogue

2012– FİLİZ ANKAÇ “the other self” on faces, Famagusta https://dl.dropbox.com/s/btcm211flesm4m7/Archive.zip?dl=1