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Dr. Filiz Cicek is an artist-curator who for the past decade has been collaborating with transnational-nomadic artists from diverse cultural backgrounds. Also an academic scholar and a journalist, Cicek cultivates an ongoing theoretical understanding of wide array of subjects including: film, history, art, gender and language. Cicek's art works have been exhibited in major galleries and museums in New York, California, Chicago, North Carolina, Birmingham UK, as well as in the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University Bloomington, which houses a few of her pieces in its permanent collection. Pieces from her latest Eve & Eve trilogy has been exhibited in Women Exposed Art Show in Bloomington, as well as in Engender Art Show at UC Davis, The Femail Project at ARTicle Gallery at Birmingham City University School of Arts and Design in UK, and will soon they will be on display Chicago Urban Art Retreat Center.

Cicek received her PhD from Central Eurasian Studies, with minors in Gender Studies and Art History, from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her area of scholarly research is Transnational Migrant Cinema, German-Turkish Migrant Cinema,   in particular. As a scholar, Cicek has been teaching visual arts, gender theory, cinema, transnational cinema, and related courses at universities in the United States for the past 20 years. She is also a contributing editor to The Ryder Magazine, which features stories about art, culture, music and independent cinema.

A native of Turkey, Cicek first studied Sculpture and Cinema TV at Marmara University in Istanbul, later, she received her MFA from Henry Redford School of Fine Arts, also from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Having studied feminist art with Judy Chicago and Peggy Zeglin Brand, Cicek began to serve as the regional coordinator for The Feminist Art Project based in New York. In 2006 Cicek participated in the Creative Action Conference at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, discussing her Inscribing Tradition on Female Body Art Project. There, Cicek also partook the theater activism workshop ran by The Guerilla Girls. From 2006-2011, Cicek has directed the Women Exposed Art Exhibit, which provides times an space for local and transnational women arts, while raising awareness about domestic violence and funds for its victims, working together with the local women Shelter The Middle Way House a local women's shelter in Bloomington, IN, Cicek has participated in the exhibit as an artist herself.

In 2010 Cicek co-organized the hosting of the Museum of Broken Relationships international traveling exhibit at Indiana University Grundwald (formerly SoFA) Gallery of Art. Conceptualized in Croatia by Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić, the museum has amassed a collection of personal items that represents love gone wrong for people from around the globe. "Although often colored by personal experience, local culture and history, the exhibits presented here form universal patterns offering us to discover them and feel the comfort they can bring. Hopefully they can also inspire our personal search for deeper insights and strengthen our belief in something more meaningful than random suffering," say the Museum's founders Vištica and Grubišić. Bloomington was its 17th stop, and only its second American showing; so overwhelming was the response to the call for the donations representing broken relationships that the Cicek and her co-host had to stop collecting them. The opening was held in May 28, 2010 in conjunction with The Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show at Grunwald Gallery.

In curating local and international exhibits, Cicek strives to create aesthetic outlets for artists and viewers alike, where connecting to one's primordial self is possible through our collective humanity. In May 2010, Cicek met His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Temple, which prompted her to organize and curate The BloomingtonKatmandu International Art Exhibit.

Back in 2004 Cicek had teamed up with a linguist Suzan Ozel and scholar Slyvia Onder for a language project. Cicek co-wrote and directed the educational instructional film for learners of Turkish, Sevgili Murat, funded by Fulbright Abroad Project. Currently she is working on a three documentary film project Eco-Warrior, produced by Center for Sustainable Living(CSL). She was also involved with other CSL projects, namely Eco-Report, the weekly live radio (WFHB) news program as a co-producer,  and Trashion-Refashion Show,   as a board member and a designer. She continues to create, exhibit and perform as a visual artist.