Jale Nejdet Erzen
Jale Nejdet Erzen,
painter (Art Center College of Design,
Los Angeles, 1973), art historian, is professor of art history and
aesthetics courses at the Middle
East Technical University, Dept. of Architecture.
She is a practicing artist with work in collections in
She has founded and edited the BOYUT journal of fine arts (1980-1985),
is one of the founders and president of SANART Association for Aesthetics
and Visual Culture holding international symposia on art since 1992,
she has acted as secretary general of the International Association
for Aesthetics between 1995 and 1998; she has been exhibiting in Turkey
and abroad since 1973, has edited the arts section of the Journal
of Architectural Culture (2000-2002) she has Turkish and international
publications on aesthetics, Ottoman architecture and modern art.
She has lectured worldwide on environmental aesthetics and art related
subjects. She has received the French Ministry of Culture's Chevalier
Award for Arts and Letters 1990, the best
Critic Award in
