She spent her childhood in different regions of Turkey. In 1947 she started to attend to
the studio of Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu at the Academy of Fine
Arts in Istanbul, which she concluded in 1953.
Her first exhibition took place in the Gallery "Maya" in Istanbul (1953).
Between 1950 and1953 she was a member of the State Choir for Turkish folk music under the direction of Nedim Otyam. Beside the participation in concerts and
folkloric arrangements for example in Italy, she also worked as a voice artist
and acted in the movie "Yurda Dönüş".
After 1954 she completely devoted herself to painting.
Her paintings were shown in special exhibitions of the State Museum for
Painting and Sculptures Istanbul and the Biennial for Young Artist in
Paris. In 1961 she won the second price of the Istanbul Art Festival.
1979 she was invited to Holland, where her paintings were exhibited in
different museums and galleries in Deventer, The Hague and Rotterdam for
the duration of one year.
Her works are found in public and private collections in Germany
and Holland, in the Museum for Painting and Sculptures Istanbul, the
Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the City Administration
Istanbul, the University of Istanbul and the Umjetnicka Galerij in
former Yugoslavia.
Nevin Çokay worked 17 years as a teacher for art and art history in high schools and gave 10 years of private painting lessons in different gallery studios.
Today she works in her private studio in Istanbul. She is married and has a son.
