Between the period 1933-1937, Nuri İyem had attended the Nazmi Ziya, Hikmet Onat, İbrahim Çallı and the Leopold Levy Studios and graduated from them with the first degree. He finished his military service in 1938 and came back to the Academy in 1940 to continue his education for the masters degree in the Painting Department. Together with his colleagues Kemal Sönmezler, Selim Turan and Avni Arbaş, made observations about the fishermen and portworkers life and decided to open an exhibition describing their life struggle. Followingly Turgut Atalay, Haşmet Akal, Agob Arad, Fethi Karakaş, Ferruh Başağa and Mümtaz Yener participated in this group. These young students of Leopold Levy, opened an exhibition at “Beyoğlu Press Administration Hall” with the paintings they had handcrafted in the port and named their first exhibition as “The Port : Istanbul” in 1941. After this exhibition they are called as “Yeniler”. The group’s second exhibition with the theme “Woman” had been opened the same place and the third one at “Eminönü Public House”. “Yeniler” established an important turning point, first time in the Turkish painting history, with their point of view in defending the social realistic painting. Nuri İyem had taken his masters degree from the Painting Department of Academy and also win the first prize with his painting “Nalbant-The Horse Shoer” as his graduation project, in 1944. Then he opened his first personal exhibition, in 1946, at the third floor of a Beyoğlu job as well as participating in the fourth mixed exhibition of the “Yeniler” in the same year. Then he sent his “Nalbant-The Horse Shoer” to the UNESCO exhibition. In the following years he continously attended to the “Yeniler” mixed exhibitions which took place at the French Cultural Center once in every two years between the period 1947 to 1951. In 1948, he turned towards the abstraction in painting. He painted view and object abstractions. After the “Yeniler” group had been disseminated in 1951, he joined the exhibitions of Turkish Painters Association as a member. In 1952 he opened his second personal exhibition contuining of his nude and portrait paintings at the Maya Art Gallery. After this date, he had his own personal exhibition each following year. In 1956, he attended to the Venice and in 1957, he attended to the Sao Paulo Bienals. He had continued his abstractions and nonfigurative works until 1965. Between the years 1959 to 1970 he had several wall painting works none of which today. In the same period, his fine art articles appeared on periodicals: “Yeditepe” and “Dost”. In 1986, for the honour of his 50th year in fine arts, a retrospective exhibition had been held at the “Tüyap Trade Center” and an exhibition book had been published. He had received the honorary prize of the 50th year of Turkish Republic for painting in 1973, Sedat Simavi Fine Arts prize in 1989 and the honorary prize of the Tüyap Istanbul Art Fair in 1997. Evin Art Gallery had archived the photographic images of most of his Works by locating his paintings in the collectioners possessions. Being the continuationof this project, a retrospective exhibition, named “From Yesterday to Tomorrow : Nuri İyem” had been held in the year 2001. Also his an art book and two volumes and a cd had been published containing his 1504 paintings which had been exhibited.