Distinguished Prize 2021 has been AWARDED to Prof. Dr. Günsel Renda.
Prof. Dr. Günsel Renda completed her undergraduate and graduate education in art history in Columbia and Washington Universities in the USA. She served as a faculty member and department chair in the Art History Department of the same university until 2004. Günsel Renda, who has been a faculty member at Koç University Archaeology and Art History Department since 2004, served as a ministerial advisor at the Ministry of Culture and a member of the IRCICA board of directors, and lectured on Ottoman painting as a visiting professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes à la Sorbonne in Paris. She was invited to give conferences to many countries abroad, took part in international research projects, and received various awards. She has been in the organising committee of many international exhibitions such as Women in Anatolia, The Sultan’s Portrait, Image of the Turks in the 17th Century Europe, Portolan and Sea Maps in XIV-XVIII Centuries, Views of Venice and Istanbul through the Centuries, An Eyewitness to the Tulip Period Jean-Baptiste Vanmour, Istanbul The City of Dreams with Selected Works of Art from the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Collection, etc.
She has many articles written in Turkish and foreign languages on Ottoman painting and Europe-Ottoman relations in art, published congress papers, encyclopaedia articles, and books that she is the editor and author of. Some of her works are: Turkish Painting in the Westernisation Period, The Transformation of Culture. The Atatürk Legacy (ed. Renda, Kortepeter) A History of Turkish Painting (Grabar, Renda, Turani, Özsezgin), The Sultan's Portrait.Tesavir-i Al-i-Osman (Necipoğlu, zur-Capellen, Majer, Çağman, Bağcı, Mahir, İrepoğlu, Renda), An Eyewitness to the Tulip Period Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (St. Nicolas, Bull, Renda, İrepoğlu), Minnet av Constantinople. Den osmansk-turkiska 1700-talssamlingen pa Biby (Achlund, Adahl, Brown, Karlsson, Kaberg, Laine, Renda) Ottoman Civilization (ed. İnalcık, Renda), Ottoman Painting Art (Bagcı, Çağman, Renda, Tanındı).