MERAL YILDIZ

He started his art education at Yeditepe University Faculty of Plastic Arts in 2000. He moved to the USA in 2002 and continued his art education at the School of Museum of Fine Arts. He returned to Turkey in 2010 and graduated from Yeditepe University with his undergraduate degree in 2012. In 2014, he completed his master's degree at Yeditepe University, Faculty of Fine Arts, with honors. He is currently continuing his doctoral studies (proficiency in art) at Yeditepe University. Meral Yıldız's personal and group exhibitions include Contemporary Arts 2017, Istanbul Biennale parallel event 2016, Holy Text Gama gallery 2015, Pinelo Gallery 2015, Yeditepe'de Zaman Ekav Art Gallery 2014, Hey I'm Here Haliç Shipyard Group Exhibition 2014.

According to art critic Marcus Graf, “Art is a spiritual journey for Meral Yildiz; This transforms the consciousness in the artistic production process into a different phase. He then goes beyond the known to explore alternative dimensions of life and its reality. In this context, Meral likes Kandinsky's concept of mystical art and Gerhard Richter's approach to color and texture. During his impulsive painting processes, he loses himself by losing his ego, which constitutes his personality.”
Meral Yıldız produces her works with the idea of ​​unity awareness of Sufism. His works deal with the themes of "love, unity, spirituality, emotion, mystery, depth, space, emptiness, the secret of dimensions and colors, and self-discovery."

“First there was nothingness, then the depth of nothingness.”