ılgım veryeri

İstanbul, 1975

Ilgım Veryeri, graduated in 1997 from the Mimar Sinan University, Department of Painting and obtained her master’s degree from the California State University. In 1999, she was granted a scholarship by the Illinois University, with which she completed her Ph.D. in art and design at Urbana-Champaign. Meantime, she gave courses in drawing and etching. With her thesis, in which she explored a synthesis of etching with “ebru” -the art of marbling-, and collage, she received “Sufficiency in Art” from the Hacettepe University. She took part in group exhibitions in the USA, Italy, Georgia, Turkey, Germany, Poland and Bulgaria and was deemed worthy of several international awards in the field of original prints. Her works have been included in the university collections of California State University, Texas University and Istanbul Bilgi University.

Veryeri’s works on paper are also to be found at various museums in Italy, Poland, Georgia and Turkey, among them, Museo dell’Incisione-Costello dei Paleologi (Acqui-Terme) and the National Museum of Painting and Sculpture (Istanbul). Since 2002, Veryeri is teaching drawing, painting, etching, art studio, perception and history of art at Ankara Bilkent University. For the 2006-2007 academic year, she was invited as a visiting scholar to the Richmond University where a comprehensive exhibition of her drawings and etchings was hosted.