Şükriye Dikmen was born in Constantinople in 1918. Her father was Cafer Fahri Bey from Batumi of Georgian descent and a microbiologist of the early Republican era.[3][4][5] She is the older sister of painter Tiraje Dikmen, and the niece of Ali Dikmen, a member of the Ottoman parliament Meclis-i Mebusan, and later a member of the Grand National Assembly.[6]
Dikmen received her pre-university education at the Robert College in Arnavutköy finishing in 1942.[7] Six years later in 1948, she completed her education at the Painting Department of the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts, and then went to Paris, France.[2] In 1953, she graduated from the Art history Department of the Ecole du Louvre in Paris,[2] and worked three years with Fernand Léger and two years with Sengier Chastel and Roger Chastel.[8] In 1953, she opened her first solo exhibition,[7][8] and the next year she had her first solo exhibition in Turkey.[7]
In 1957, Dikmen participated in the exhibition of contemporary Turkish arts exhibition in Edinburgh, Scotland, and then in similar exhibitions during 1962 in Paris, Brussels, and Vienna.[7][2] In 1968, she organized a retrospective exhibition gathering both her old and new works.[7]
She died on 16 September 2000.[3]
