Meral
Ağar

Meral AĞAR                                                                                                

1957

Graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences in 1982.  Started her arts career in a painting course in the Painting and Sculpture Museums Association between 2002 and 2006. Concomitantly continued various workshops relating to decorative painting, marbling, painting and photograph between 2000 and 2009.  She collected her works on the theme of Istanbul in two separate exhibitions, namely “Saint Sophia – Light of the Wisdom” and “Memory of the City”. Parallel to Istanbul 2010 Capital City of Culture activities, Ağar took part in a serial of traveling exhibitions under the heading of the “Meeting Bridge”.

Holding various different arts prizes, a photographing work of the artist has been selected for final exhibition in 6th Arte Laguna Arts Contest 2012 (Italy).

Since 2011, she is organizing various “mail art” projects, Her works on memory have been exhibited in her “Gidenler” exhibition (2013). Ağar has organized fifteen solo exhibitions, and participated in many national and international exhibitions so far.

She continues her works in ARTS-IN, co-founded by her.