tiraje dikmen

İstanbul, 1925

Tiraje Dikmen, graduated from the Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics. While she was working on her Ph.D. thesis on “The Working Conditions of Woman Laborers in Istanbul”, she also attended to the painting classes of Léopold Lévy at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Istanbul. In 1949, she traveled to Paris with a scholarship from the French Government. Initially she enrolled at the Faculty of Law and Economics and later studied History of Art and Museology at the École du Louvre. She opened her first solo show in 1956, at Galerie Edouard Loeb, which was exhibiting the works of Ernst, Miro and Arp on a regular basis.

Along with these artists, in 1964, she was invited to “The Origins, History and Relationships of Surrealism” exhibition, viewed today as one of the most important exhibitions of the history of Surrealism, in the catalogue of which she was referred to as “one of the most powerful figures of imaginative painting”. Tiraje Dikmen, whose works are regularly exhibited in solo and group shows in Paris and Ankara, continued painting uninterruptedly and never left her atelier in Paris.