GALI
Sedef Gali - Artist & Creative Consultant
“If there's one thing every city shares, it's constant change. Yet as change breeds novelty, novelty breeds seclusion. Do any of us belong—in our cities, our bodies, our minds? Or are we all just outsiders looking in? These are the stuff of private conversations—conversations with a loved one, with a friend, with the self.”
Sedef Gali, artist, designer and creative consultant born in Istanbul, 14 of March 1990. Graduated from Pratt Institute with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in New York - Brooklyn, leading art and design university in the USA where she studied Interior Design and Painting. Her international academic background is supported with International Baccalaureate Diploma and Art & Design diploma from Central St. Martins in London. She is a multi-faceted artist based in between Istanbul and New York.
Sedef Gali, after growing up in cities with clashing cultures, researches different socio-cultural eras, cultural contrasts and suppressed emotions. 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.
The main technique Gali uses is oil on canvas, but all works includes medium tricks and illusions supported with food dye, nail polish, oil based mediums, alcohol and self made powdered pigments.
Sedef Gali researches different socio-cultural eras, cultural contrasts and emotional layers through social experiences. Gali explains her work as "sugar coated chaos". Main subjects of her work consist of suppressed emotions, lust, sexism, gender issues, self love, and accumulation of emotions masked and frowned upon by our cultural surroundings and society. Gali had multiple exhibitions, live art performances, brand collaborations and pop-up shows between Istanbul and New York including Cemberlitas Basin Museum, Hole Gallery, St Tropez Fine Arts, Contemporary Istanbul, Manhattan Center, and W New York - Times Square.
Education
2009 - 2014
Pratt Institute - BFA
Interior Design & Fine Arts - Dean's List
2007 - 2007
Central St. Martins - UAL
Art & Design Diploma Program
2004-2009
The Koc School - International Baccalaureate
IB Art Diploma
Exhibitions
Group
2021
Selected Works, Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul
2021
Selected Works, Art Contact, Contemporary Art Fair, Represented by Istanbul Besiktas Municipality
2018
2018
2016
"Istanbul Gazinosu", Raw Pop-Up, Miami Art Week
"Sky Up" Lighting Installation, Istanbul Design Week
Selected Works, M.A.D Gallery, New York
2015
2014
2009
Selected Works, The Hole Gallery, New York
Selected Works, Pratt Show, Manhattan Center
Selected Works, Cemberlitas Museum, Istanbul
Solo
2023
"Fragile Words", Turkish Consulate, New York
2023
2023
2021
Selected Works, W Hotel New York - Times Square
"Fragile Words/Love Letters", ArtHouse by Sedef Gali, New York
"Sentimental Wonderland Troupe", ArtHouse by Sedef Gali, Istanbul
2020
"Sentimental Wonderland Troupe", Online Exhibition, Artsy
2018
"Istanbul Gazinosu", Contemporary Istanbul Week, Soho House Istanbul
2017
"Artland", Setup Kabatas
2016
Solo Exhibition, Bagatelle New York
2016
Pop-Up Solo Exhibition, Lucca Istanbul
2015
All That Glitters, Subrosa, New York
2014
Solo Exhibition, Diviera Drive, Brooklyn
2014
Solo Exhibition-Live Painting Show, Bowery Hotel, New York
2013
"In Colors", Lucca Istanbul
2011
Pop!, Lucca Istanbul