Ayla Letmathe is a mixed media artist, living and working in a small town by the Baltic Sea, in Germany. Ayla studied drawing, painting, intaglio printing and mural techniques at the Istanbul, Academy of Fine Arts of University Marmara. In 1998, she graduated with a Master’s degree from Marmara University Social Sciences Institute Department of Fine Arts. In 2021, she studied Art Therapy at University of Florida.
She has worked as a studio assistant at Tampa I Prodigy Art Project (FL,USA) and worked as an art teacher at Academy Istanbul (TR) and also at her studio giving classes to adults. Her master’s thesis was published by Humanist Culture and Art Magazine. She’s conducted workshops for children and adults about the history of visual art and how to look at the visual arts in an artistic way. She’s made several personal and group exhibitions in Turkey, Europe and the United States. Some of her paintings are in private collections in Holland, England, Turkey, the USA and Germany.
Art Shows:
2018 Weilburg Bergbau und Stadt, Kunstpreis, collective exhibition, Germany
2012 Art Center of Municipality of Sariyer, “I see” Collective exhibition, Istanbul Turkey.
2009 Reunion of M.U. Faculty of Fine Arts, collective exhibition, Istanbul,Turkey
2004 Havasu Art Gallery, Lake Havasu City- Arizona, USA
2001 Istanbul Social Researches, Culture and Art Foundation Art Gallery, Turkey
2000 Izmir,Ataturkist Idea Association, collective exhibition, Turkey
1999 Harmony Art Gallery “Cat” collective exhibition Istanbul –Turkey
1998 Ankara, UM:AG, Ugur Mumcu Foundation collective exhibition, Turkey
1996 Unesco Aiap National Committees, International Plastic Arts Association, Young Action 2 “ Territory-Deterritorialisation” collective exhibition, Istanbul-Turkey
1995 Unesco AIAP National Committees, International Plastic Arts Association, Young Action I “ Boundaries and Beyond” – Tuyap- Istanbul-Turkey
1994 Istanbul, Beyoglu Municipality Art Gallery, Graduation exhibition, Turkey
1993 Marmara University, “Street-Art” Festival Exhibition Istanbul-Turkey
1993 Balikesir Municipality Art Gallery, Turkey
1987 Izmir, American Culture Association , Izmir-Turkey
1986 Istanbul, Yapi Kredi, Kazim Taskent Art Gallery, Istanbul-Turkey
1984 Istanbul, Taksim Art Gallery, Istanbul-Turkey
1983 Izmir, American Culture Association, Izmir-Turkey
