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 is an artist, designer and creative consultant 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. There, 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 the 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.​
Education
2009 - 2014
Pratt Institute - BFA
Interior Design & Fine Arts
2007 - 2007
Central St. Martins - UAL
Art & Design Diploma Program
2004-2009
The Koc School - International Baccalaureate
IB Art Diploma
Group Exhibitions
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
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"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 Exhibitions
Selected Works, ArtWeeks Istanbul, Istanbul
2024
"Drifting into Dreamland", ArtHouse by Sedef Gali, New York
2024
2023
2023
"Fragile Words", Turkish Consulate, New York
Selected Works, W Hotel New York - Times Square
2023
"Fragile Words/Love Letters", ArtHouse by Sedef Gali, New York
2021
2020
2018
"Sentimental Wonderland Troupe", ArtHouse by Sedef Gali, Istanbul
"Sentimental Wonderland Troupe", Online Exhibition, Artsy
"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