Pelin Kırca

After completing her undergraduate education at Bilkent University, Department of Graphic Design, Pelin Kırca received her master’s degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She held her first exhibition in Istanbul in 2015 and then attended Werner Herzog’s film school in 2016. Alongside Turkey, her works were shown in group exhibitions in Germany, USA, France, England, Spain, Japan, and Switzerland, and her animated films have been screened at many international film festivals such as Vienna Independent Shorts, London International Animation Festival, Chicago Underground, Akbank, !F Istanbul, International Filmmor Women Festival on Wheels, and Manifest. With her film titled “One Moonless Night” she was invited by Istanbul Modern to take part in the 2018 International Artist Films program led by Whitechapel Gallery in London. Kırca’s works received various international awards and in December 2019, she was invited to the “Golden Age” exhibition organized by Galeri Nev on the occasion of its 35th anniversary. Her first solo exhibition “Down the Rabbit Hole”, featuring her works illustrated for Lewis Carroll’s books “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There”, met with the audience at Galeri Nev in 2021. Pelin Kırca, whose works were recently exhibited at the 17th Istanbul Biennial Parallel event "Another Round" at Kendi Collection, continues to work in Ankara.