Canan Tolon (born 1955) is a Turkish-born artist who now lives and works in Emeryville, California.
[1] Tolon works in the mediums of printmaking, painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation.
[1] She has exhibited internationally in Ankara, Istanbul, Kiev, London, Los Angeles, New York, Oakland and San Francisco.
[3] A Los Angeles Times review in 2014 noted that Tolon's paintings "highlight our tendency to look for recognizable forms" and "also perhaps a comment on the degraded quality of our image landscape.
after graduating from the Ecole Française d’Istanbul (1975) She studied design and architecture at Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland (1976), Fachhochschule, Trier, Germany (1979), Middlesex University/Architectural Association, London, England (1980) and University of California, Berkeley, where she earned her master in architecture (1983).