Career Highlights

📍 Mixed Media Artist based in Northern Cyprus, Turkey.

▫️ Creating semi-abstract botanical worlds through lace collage, textiles, and marbling paper. Inspired by nature, imagination, and organic structures.

▫️ My work explores the intersection of the earthly and the cosmic through imagined flora, abstract ecosystems, and dreamlike visual narratives.

 

🎓 Education & Background

▫️ Master’s Degree in Fashion Design from the A.N. Kosygin Moscow State Textile University, graduated with honors.

▫️ Diploma in Iconography and Ancient Fine Art Techniques from the Trifonov School of Iconography, graduated with honors.

▫️ Former TV wardrobe stylist, fashion illustrator for a retail clothing brand, graphic designer, book illustrator, and icon painter.

 

🤝 Professional Roles

▫️ Member of the International Association of Art (IAA), representing Turkey.

▫️ Member of the Eurasian Art Union (EAU).

▫️ Former juror for Apexart (2022–2023), evaluating international exhibition proposals.

 

🏛 Exhibitions & Collections

▫️ Participated in international art fairs including Affordable Art Fair Austin (2026), Swiss Art Expo (2022, 2024, 2025), Europe Art Fair Amsterdam (2024), and Spectrum Miami Art Fair (2022).

▫️ Held a solo exhibition in Northern Cyprus in 2023.

▫️ Works held in the permanent collection of the Cyprus Modern Art Museum.

 

📰 Publications & Media

Featured in Authority Magazine, Artsy Shark, ArtistCloseUp, The Curator’s Salon, Altiba9, and Spotlight Contemporary Art Magazine.

 

🏆 Awards & Recognition

▫️ Recipient of more than 20 international art awards.

▫️ Recipient of the Boynes Monthly Art Award (2025).

▫️ Two-time recipient of the Certificate of Artistic Achievement from the Luxembourg Art Prize (2023, 2024).