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Image courtesy of Parker Lily Tuson-Morse

My practice explores trauma and multiplicity, informed by my Chinese-Turkish lineage, childhood isolation, and displacement. Through painting, I depict hybrid figures and surreal landscapes that merge with storytelling. Self-portraiture, memory, and metaphysical elements shape liminal spaces where human, animal, and object intersect.

Painting functions as a channel for my personal history and a psychological process. Anthropomorphized figures often emerge as projections of inner states and alienation, serving as ways to cope with loneliness and uncertainty. While weaving together whimsical and morbid imagery, I reimagine memories and spaces to reclaim agency over trauma. Grounded in lived experience, these narratives unfold across multiple planes of reality.

This process reframes darkness not as an endpoint but as a point of origin instead — a generative site from which new forms, memories, and possibilities arise. Each work contributes to a growing visual lexicon of hybrid beings and shifting atmospheric worlds.

(b. 2000, Istanbul, Turkey)

Based in Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION

2023 BFA School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, USA (Full Scholarship)

2022 Central Saint Martins at UAL, London, UK

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 The Flea and the Acrobat, Fragment Gallery, New York, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 SCHOOL'S OUT, The Macedonia Institute & Ten Barn Farm, Ghent, NY, USA

2025 The Bennet Prize: Rising Voices 4, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, USA

2025 New:Now, CerModern, Ankara, Turkey

2024 A Collector's Story: Taviloğlu Collection, Istanbul, Turkey