BIOGRAPHY
Elcin Ekinci is a UK-based contemporary artist, with roots in Turkey, whose work focuses on human nature, layers of ontology, psychoanalysis, representation of bodypolitics and gender.
The body plays a major role in her practice, as a form of provocative beings, a field of deep memories, and a site for exploring body politics and body memory. These are organically shaped deformed figures that are originating from the personal and collective subconscious flow, gradually start to create themselves a form and body. She works in various mediums depending on the progress of the research.
She studied BA in Art and Design from YTU (Istanbul) and MA in Sculpture from Marmara University (Istanbul).
Ekinci has exhibited widely in the United Kingdom, Turkey, Italy, and Russia.
Her recent exhibitions include 8th Women In Art Prize (UK), Homiens ‘25 (UK), In and Entirely Out (Yazz Collective), Pandora's Black Box (Galata Greek School), Future and Past (4th Ural Biennale, Russia), Memory/Narration (Sabancı University Kasa Gallery), The Nature of Order (Daire Gallery), Mamut Art Project Selection 2015, When Ideas Become Crime (Depo Istanbul), Over the City (Gallery Famiglia Margini, Milan), Sculpture Selection (Rotary International, Italy), New Suggestions and New Propositions(Borusan Art Gallery), and Now (Odeabank).
Most recently, she was selected as a finalist in the Sculpture category of the 8th Women In Art Prize and received a Highly Commended recognition at Homiens ‘25.
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EDUCATION & RESIDENCY
Academia di Belle Arti L'Aquila,Italy
2007
Exchange Residency, master degree, Sculpture
Marmara University, Fine Arts Faculty, Istanbul
2005-2008
MA, Sculpture
Yıldız Technical University, Art and Design Faculty, Istanbul
2000-2004
BA, Composed arts
Marmara University, Istanbul
1998-2000
BA, Textile
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2016, "Memory/Narration" (duo show), Sabancı Kasa Gallery, Istanbul
2013, "The Nature of Order", Gallery Daire, Istanbul
Solo Projects
2022, "In and entirely out", Yazz Collective & Faar Gallery
2008, "Representations of Breast", Gallery Famiglia Margini, Milan
2008, "Journey Among Dimensions", Apartment Project, Istanbul
2007, "City over cemetery", MUSPAC Contemporary Art Museum of L'Aquila
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025,8th Women In Art Prize,York Gallery, London
2025,HOMIENS Winter Exhibition
2024,"The Hidden and The Revealed", Art Lounge Chelsea, London
2019, "Open School: Pandora's Black Box", Galata Greek School, Istanbul, Turkey
2018, "99 Squares", Art On Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2017,4th Ural Biennale, "Future Past", Museum of History & Archeology, Ural, Russia
2017, "The Beauty of Concept", Plato Art, Istanbul, Turkey
2016, "Keystone", Rem Art Space, Istanbul, Turkey
2015 "Hidden", ALANistanbul & Overthose, Istanbul, Turkey
2014, Tomtom Gardens_"Tomtom Calling"
2012, "24/7", Armaggan Art & Design Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2012, "In the irregular topography of the mind", Rumeli Han, Istanbul,Turkey
2011, "Where Fire has Struck", Depo, Istanbul,Turkey
2010, "When Ideas Become Crime", Depo, Istanbul,Turkey
2008, "Art is in Akmerkez, 5", Akmerkez Istanbul, Turkey
2007, "Sopra a la citta", Gallery Famiglia Margini, Milan, Italy
2007, Rotary International, Arcevia, Italy
2006, "One Minute Izmir", K2 Contemporary Art Center, Izmir, Turkey
2005, "New Suggestions and New Propositions 2005", Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2003, Yapı Kredi and Yıldız Technical University Projects, Istanbul, Turkey
ART PROJECT SELECTIONS
2025, Women In Art Prize, Sculpture Category Finalist, UK
2025, Homiens Art Prize, Highly Commended
2025, Visual Art Prize, Shortlisted, UK
2015,Mamut Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey
2005, "New Suggestions and New Propositions 2005", Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
PROJECT & WORKSHOPS
2016, Istanbul Modern Art Museum
Artist Workshop with kids, Istanbul, Turkey
2016, Istanbul Modern Art Museum
Artist Workshop with corporate, Istanbul, Turkey
2006, Istanbul Modern Art Museum
Summer School Project & workshop leading, Istanbul, Turkey
2006, "Gender, The Company" IETM (International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts) Turkey
2006, "LİS", IETM and Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
2003, Sculpture workshop, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Art Paris, France