SECIL

Seçil thinks of herself as a dreamer who gets excited by the unknown future.
For her, the idea of the future represents newness in ideas, conversations where she anchors herself with a new breath of air and sense of presence. She believes that awareness of one’s own creativity and potential are guiding principles for a better and happier future for us individually and together as a whole.

Born in Istanbul, lives and works in London.
She is a visual artist, working across various disciplines with a primary focus on painting.
She graduated from the painting department at the Istanbul Mimar Sinan Fine Art University with an undergraduate and Masters degrees. Over two decades, she has been exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions as well as art fairs, starting in Turkey and expanding into Europe, United States and most recently in the United Kingdom. Throughout her career, she has lectured, took part in specialist conferences and symposia and participated at artist residencies. To date, she published an artist book with publisher Istanbul Graphic Museum of Arts and exhibition monographs on the occasion of her solo shows at Gallery Zilberman and Gallery Milli Reasurans, both in Istanbul.
Upon locating to London in 2017, she started to build a new set of associations, collaborations while familiarising herself with the UK art scene, while continuing to honour my existing bonds with Istanbul and the art scene in Turkey. Receiving a London Creative Network scholarship enabled her to further her studies in artist business development.
Receiving the shortlist for the 253rd Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 2021 brought her a vote of confidence in furthering her work in the UK. Her works are expanding internationally and lastly works have selected a New York based exhibition called Nada Curated by curator Fatoş Üstek.
She is not only involved in art production but its dissemination as a body of knowledge, thus she set up a series of artist-led sessions at the Art Club in order to support participants in tuning with their inner creativity.