SEDEF GALI

Sedef Gali born in Istanbul in 1990. Gali graduated from Pratt Institute, a leading art and design university in New York, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree where she studied interior Design and painting. Her international academic background is supported with the International Baccalaureate Diploma and Art & Design diploma from Central St. Martins in London. She is a multi-faceted artist based in Istanbul and New York.

Due to her upbringing in cities with clashing cultures, Gali researches different socio-cultural eras, cultural contrasts, suppressed emotions, and emotional layers through social experiences. Her work is a celebration for the colorful and chaotic grime in metropolitan cities and how it is reflected upon society through the use of colors. 

Gali's primary artistic technique is oil on canvas, but every work includes medium tricks and illusions supported with food dye, nail polish, oil based mediums, alcohol and self-made powdered pigments. 

Sedef Gali work mainly focuses on dreams and memories, cultural contrasts and emotional layers through social experiences. Her work is a celebration of the suppressed emotions of human beings and how it is sugar coated within society through her use of colors and illusions. Her gestural abstraction consists of bravura brush strokes, layering of pigments, dyes, oil, acrylic and mediums of cultural traditions. Gali has had multiple exhibitions, live art performances, brand collaborations and studio pop-ups between Turkey and United States including Cemberlitas Basin Museum, Hole Gallery, St Tropez Fine Arts, Contemporary Istanbul and Manhattan Center.​