Eda Gecikmez graduated from the Department of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Mimar Sinan University. During her undergraduate studies, she spent one year at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, San Carlos Faculty of Fine Arts in Spain. In 2024, she completed the Art Proficiency Program at the Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Hacettepe University. She has been invited to numerous group exhibitions, including “Dystopian 1984” dedicated to George Orwell, organized by Galeri Nev in 2014; “Amusement Park,” the NEVGENERATION exhibition in 2015; “Angels’ Share” held at Istanbul DEPO as a parallel event of the 15th Istanbul Biennial in 2017; “Age of Gold,” organized by Galeri Nev to celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2019; and “Another Round” at Kendi Koleksiyonu as a parallel event of the 17th Istanbul Biennial in 2022. Her first solo exhibition, titled "Borrowed Togetherness," was held at the American Hospital Gallery, Operation Room in Istanbul in 2013. In 2015, works of Gecikmez are shown at the Mardin Biennial. She was invited to the artist residencies at Cittadellarte in Italy and Kultivera in Sweden. She also participated the Home Workspace program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, Lebanon in 2016-2017, supported by SAHA. In 2023, she was invited in the ISCP in New York, with the support of SAHA. Her solo exhibitions include “Landscape in Capsule” in 2018 and “Broken Open” in 2020, both held at Galeri Nev, and “A Bird is Unseen, yet its Voice is in the Tree,” held at the Goethe-Institut in 2022. In 2024, she was invited to the exhibitions “The Beginning of Memory” at Ark Kültür in Istanbul and “A Memory Surfaces” at Kırlangıç Sokak in Ankara, organized to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Galeri Nev. Her works were recently showcased in her solo exhibition titled “Root and Footing” at Galeri Nev. Gecikmez continues her work in both Ankara and Istanbul.
