Biography


Derya Türksever is a mixed-media artist based on İstanbul, Turkey. She was born in 1984 in Bursa, Turkey. She began drawing and painting while still at school, and continued at Anadolu University while studying for a business management degree. Rather her education continues, she pursued her love of visual art along side other academic interests so after she had completed her degree; she started to study for a bachelor on painting in Kocaeli University.

Derya’s works draw inspiration from a variety of personal, mythologic and art historical periods, mixed with disguised, self-fashioned autobiographic references.

Also her works explores the similar visual aesthetics and complex narratives she grew up admiring, pulling roots from folk art, pop art and art deco, while helping her to create works that tends to pull very strong influences from past;  retro, vintage and fantasy. Always symbolic and often surreal, the work juggles story telling within a staged setting with emotional and sometimes awkward personal statements expressed through the various figurative characters who populate her worlds.