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Brief Biography

Sedef Gali, artist, designer & creative consultant, born in Istanbul, 14 of March 1990. Graduated from Pratt Institute with Interior Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in New York - Brooklyn, leading art and design university in the USA. Her international academic background is supported with International Baccalaureate Diploma and Art & Design diploma from Central St. Martins in London. Sedef Gali developed an international experience while building her creative career. She is a multi-faceted artist, owner of based in between Istanbul and New York.

Sedef Gali researches different socio-cultural eras, mainly focusing on portraits. Her work is a contrasting celebration of suppressed emotions in humans and how it is sugar coated within society and facial expressions, through her use of colors and illusions. Main subjects of her work consist of emotional layers, sexism, oppressed minorities, gender issues, self love, and the chaotic grime of metropolitan cities and society. She had multiple exhibitions, live art performances, brand collaborations and pop-up shows between Turkey and USA. Artist Statement Sedef Gali researches different socio-cultural eras, mainly focusing on portraits. Her work is a contrasting celebration of suppressed emotions in humans and how it is sugar coated within society and facial expressions, through her use of colors and illusions. Main subjects of her work consist of emotional layers, sexism, oppressed minorities, gender issues, self love, and the chaotic grime of metropolitan cities and society. Gali’s major source of inspiration is people’s r emotions, oppressions and traumas shaping fears and how they are reflected through facial expressions & reactions. Her work always transforms through her own emotional challenges and self analysis, her recent abstract works are a part of her new series “Love Letters”. The main technique Gali uses is acrylic and oil on canvas, but her works include iridescent tricks and illusions supported with industrial oils, spray paint, nail polish,  mediums, alcohol and self made powdered pigments.

As an artist with her Pop Art influenced, impressionist artworks, Sedef Gali had multiple exhibitions between Istanbul and New York, including respected venues such as The Hole Gallery, Bowery Hotel and Manhattan Center in New York City, curating concept events and performances within the exhibitions in order to show her work as a complete experience.