Born in Istanbul, 1944, Robert College ’65, B.A.
Founding member of the Schneidertempel Cultural Centre
Founding member of the Istanbul Modern Art Museum Foundation
Charter member of the Istanbul Philarmonic Orchestra Association
Member of SANART Art and Culture Organisation
Member of PCD-UNESCO Plastic Arts Organisation
Since 2000 selected for inclusion in ‘The Marquis Who’s Who In the World’, ‘IBC, Dictionary of International Biography’
Works in Izmir Museum of Modern Art, Akbank, Sabancı University, İşbank, Fabrica Benneton and private collections in Turkey, U.S.A., Switzerland, France, England and Japan.
AWARDS
2005 IJAWA Merit Award ( ARCADIA ) video
2004 INTERNATIONAL JEWISH ARTIST OF THE YEAR (Sculpture) / The London Jewish Museum of Art, London, England
2002 AWARD, Tunis Biennial, Tunis
1998 ARTIST OF THE YEAR (Sculpture) Ankara Arts Council, Turkey
1997 BIENNIAL AWARD ‘Sharjah International Arts Biennal’
1993 CONTEMPORARY ARTIST OF THE YEAR / Painting and Sculpture Museum Association, Istanbul, Turkey
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Gallery APEL, Istanbul, Turkey (A leaf in the wind)
2005 G Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey / ‘Goddesses‘, installation
2001 INAX Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2001 MILLI REASURANS Art Gallery, İstanbul, Turkey / ‘Arcadia’ installation, performance video
2001 IŞ SANAT Gallery, İstanbul, Turkey / ‘Fragile Images’, Installation, performance/video/photography
2000 MILLI REASURANS Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey / ‘A Celebration’, Installation, video, performance
1999 EMLAK BANK Gallery, Ankara, Turkey / ‘Newspapers’, installation
1999 APEL Gallery, İstanbul, Turkey / ‘Newspapers’
1998 STUDIO, İstanbul, Turkey / ‘A Celebration’, performance, video/photography
1998 KARACA Art Gallery, Ankara, Turkey / ‘Inward III’, installation, video
1997 MILLI REASURANS Art Gallery, İstanbul, Turkey / ‘Inward’ installation, performance video
1997 SANART, METU, Ankara, Turkey / ‘Inward II’, installation, video, ‘Sepia bones’, performance, video
1994 KARE Art Gallery, İstanbul, Turkey / ‘Angel’s Wings’ performance dia show / ‘A Room of One’s Own’ installation
1991 Galeri BARAZ, Istanbul, Turkey / Paintings, Cemal Reşit Rey Exhibition Hall
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 10th. Anniversary, Karaca Gallery, Çankaya Contemporary Art Centre, Ankara
2007 Color of Women, Beşiktaş Contemporary, İstanbul
2006 Times of Tulip, Darphane, İstanbul
2005 Secret and Time,Korean/Turkish artists show, Ankara
2005 Beijing Biennial, Beijing, China
2005 London Jewish Museum of Art, Ben Uri Gallery, Award winner artist’s show, England
2004 London Jewish Museum of Art, Ben Uri Gallery, Finalists Show, London, England
2004 Tram Studios, Camden Town, London
2004 Contemporary Painting and Sculpture from Turkey, Lyngby Cultural Centre, Denmark
2004 Contemporary Painting and Sculpture from Turkey, Melina Mercoury Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
2004 Dialogues Plastiques, Hotel de Ville, Brussels, Belgium
2003 ‘Günther Verheugen’s choice’Contemporary Art from Turkey, European Union Building, Brussels, Belgium
2003 ‘Turkey ’ scupture exhibition. Tokyo, Japan
2003 Kyoto University, ‘Scupture from Turkey’ sculpture exhibition, Kyoto, Japan
2002 Nakano, Nazım Hikmet’s day, ‘Fragile Images’ video, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Maas Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2002 Biennial of Tunis, Tunisia
2001 Fujino, Japan / ‘Fragile Images’ performance/installation
2001 Frauen Musaeum, Bonn, Municipal Gallery, Berlin / ‘As you see me but I am not’
2001 Detroit, U.S.A., Detroit Modern Art Musaeum, DOCUMENTA
2000 Global Fine Arts, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
2000 Pilgrim’s Gallery, Washington D.C.,U.S.A.
2000 D.F.I.Gallery, Dupont Centre, Washington D.C., A.B.D.
1999 JCCNV Gallery, Washington D.C.U.S.A.
1999 I.Alexandria Mediterranean Art Festival, Egypt / ‘Cleopatra’s needles’
1997 Sharjah International Art Biennial, U.A.E. / BIENNIAL AWARD ‘The Invisible Woman of Sharjah’
1996 SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, U.S.A. / ‘Designed Landscape Forum’, ’Genesis’
1996 4.International Sculpture Drawings Biennial, Bucharest, Hungary
1995 SALON DE MONTROUGE, Paris, France
1995 JEUNE PEINTURE,Quai Branly, Paris, France
1994 SALON DE MONTROUGE, Paris, France
1993 SALON DES ARTISTES FRANÇAIS, Grand Palais, Paris, France
1993 SALON D’AUTOMNE’, Grand Palais, Paris, France / ‘Contemporary Artists’
1991 PETERS INTERNATIONAL ART, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
List of Group and Solo Exhibitions at Gallery Apel Since 1998
Since 1998 has mainly exhibited her work at Gallery Apel ‘s gallery space in Istanbul and abroad at art fairs, museums and galleries..
Palate - Suzy’s Library (matsa books to taste)
Newspaper Series - solo exhibition (Istanbul’s past/present/future)
La Notte - (moonlight sonata)
La Strada - (snapshot - installation)
Earth and Fiber 2000 -
Art-Card 2000 -
Twothousandandonenightstories -
Paper Works -
Harvest - (children’s diplomas, fruit basket, harvest of money)
Taksim-in-Asia - Marmara University Fine Arts Exhibition Hall
Wood works
Friends of Aisop - (goats love sand - installation)
Metal Works -
Contemporary Painting and Sculpture from Turkey - UN Brussels
Contemporary Painting and Sculpture from Turkey - Lyngby Cultural Center - Denmark
Contemporary Painting and Sculpture from Turkey - Melina Mercury Cultural Center - Athens
Turquie- Dialogues Plastiques - Brussels City Hall
Tenses of the Tulip - The Imperial Mint Topkapi Palace
Still Life -
Shop’n-bazaar -
Pages - (Where is the Soul / The Book of Anatomy)
Das Lesezimmer - Eine Ecke - International Frankfurt Book Fair
TOG Exhibition -
Salla Lectura-Un Angolo-Terra di Libri, Santa Maria della Scala, Siena
Je m’appelle Apel - French Cultural Centre, Istanbul
Je m’appelle Apel - DEPO Gallery
Je m’appelle Apel - Gallery Apel
Reading Corner - International Frankfurt Book Fair
Reading Corner - Contemporary Book Art from Turkey, Museum der Arbeit , Hamburg
Us - (Women)
Reading Corner -
Windows/Fenetres -ST-Art European Contemporary Art Fair, Strasburg
Culture Physique-(target board skyscraper mirage birds -bullets
Windows -
Fountains -
Vitrine -
Summer Gardens -
Art-Beat 2011 - Lutfi Kirdar Convention and Exhibition Center
Group and Solo Songs - (one follows the others run-fish in basket)
Clothing - (eyes wide shut,chastity belt, bride’s veil)
A Leaf on the Wind - Suzy Hug Levy Solo Exhibition - installation
APEL 15 -
Contemporary Istanbul 2013 - (Care)
On the Kitchen -
Summer Exhibition -
An Ad Break - (Ad break-Diet break)
Contemporary Istanbul 2014 - (Blowin’ in the wind)
Early Summer Exhibition
Mines and Ores - -(Commendment No.10 Thou shall not hovet your Neighbor’s house nor wife’ ox or donkey
Balcony - (Romeo and Juliette)
Harbour - (Birds)
Cup - (Aphrodite)
Neighbor III -
Nostospective -
Haberdashery (Tuhafiye) - (Suzy’s patisserie)