After completing her undergraduate studies in Graphic Design at Bilkent University, Pelin Kırca received her master’s degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She held her first solo exhibition in Istanbul in 2015, and in 2016 attended Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School. Her works have been shown in group exhibitions in Turkey as well as Germany, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Japan, and Switzerland. Her animated films have been screened at numerous international festivals, including Vienna Independent Shorts, the London International Animation Festival, Chicago Underground, Akbank, !F Istanbul, the International Filmmor Women Festival on Wheels, and Manifest. Her film Aysız Bir Gece (“A Moonless Night”) was included—upon the invitation of Istanbul Modern—in the 2018 International Artist Film Programme led by Whitechapel Gallery in London. Kırca has received multiple international awards for her work. In December 2019, she was invited to participate in Age of Gold, an exhibition organized to mark the thirty-fifth anniversary of Galeri Nev. In 2021, her first solo exhibition at Galeri Nev, Falling into the Rabbit Hole, brought together her illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. She later took part in Another Round, a 17th Istanbul Biennial parallel event organized by Galeri Nev in the space of the Kendi Collection in September 2022. Her solo exhibition The Crowd followed in March 2023. Most recently, her works were featured in The Beginning of Memory (Istanbul, Ark Kültür) and A Memory Surfaces (Ankara, Kırlangıç Sokak), two exhibitions held in November 2024 as part of Galeri Nev’s fortieth-anniversary program. Pelin Kırca currently lives and works in Ankara.
