I was born and raised in Istanbul, where I still live and work. I began as a figurative painter. Over time, my practice expanded across painting, photography, conceptual installation, digital media, and text. What remains constant across these different mediums is my relationship with the image. How an image comes into being, what it tells us, and what it becomes for us over time are among the central concerns of my work.
Alongside my art practice, I also worked for many years as a creative director in the advertising industry. I experienced from within how images function not only as things that show, but also as instruments that persuade and shape perception. I continue to work with questions I carried from those years into my artistic practice. I am interested not only in how an image affects us, but also in whom it makes visible, whom it leaves out, and how it shapes our sense of reality.
My studies in art history have informed another dimension of this interest. I completed my master's degree in the Department of Turkish and Islamic Art History at Marmara University, focusing on the morphological and symbolic transmission of sacred architectural forms from Central Asia. Bridging classical Turkish art heritage with contemporary visual art practices, art history became for me not only a way of understanding forms from the past, but also a way of thinking about how images live, transform, and acquire new meanings over time. I currently teach at Istanbul Medipol University, where I continue to work on visual culture, aesthetics, image theory, and the sociology of communication.
In recent years, the human face, identity, memory, and representation have become increasingly central to my work. Engaging with the concerns of contemporary Turkish figurative art and conceptual inquiry, the Biometric series examines the distance between the measurable face and human presence, while Person A explores a collective face continually reshaped through encounters. Figurative painting, however, remains the fundamental ground to which I consistently return.
My work has been exhibited in various institutional and public spaces, including Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM), Beşiktaş Modern, the Imperial Mint at Topkapı Palace, and the Istanbul State Fine Arts Gallery.
I do not see myself as working within a completed style, but within a continually changing way of seeing and thinking. New works often emerge not from the answers left by earlier ones, but from the questions they leave behind.