Seval Şener

Seval Şener was born in 1977. She completed her undegraduate study at Hacettepe University Turkish Language and Literature and Bilkent University Painting Departments. She received M.F.A degree from Bilkent University Graphic Design and M.A degree from Eastern Illinois University Sculpture Department. In 2012 she completed PhD in Sculpture Program at Hacettepe University. She is a faculty member in the same department.

Seval Şener deals with the visual values which create surface effect and visual values which create depth effect in her works. She uses depth-surface, perspective-flatness, figure-ornament, ornament-space oppositions and units these opposites in traditional arts such as miniature or traditional paper cutting. She transforms the surface effect to depth and the depth effect to surface. These transformations result with contemporary interpretation of traditional arts.

Her work has a strong reference to art history. Şener’s works might read as East-West problem with a cultural reading. However, an aesthetic reading shows that she relates the two basic art forms with each other. In order to show this relation art historical references are in evitable.

Her early works were exhibited in 25th Contemporary Artists Exhibition and Siemens Art 05.

Seval Şener’s first solo exhibition “Renaissance-Reordered” took place in Gallery AMA- Helsinki and in 2012 she was invited to XVII Mantaa Art Festival- Finland.

In 2015 she went to Arnhem-Holland with Turkish Cultural Foundation Exchange Fellowship and this period resulted with a solo exhibition “Keep Calm in the Age of Flatness”.

Her last solo exhibitions are as follows:

In 2018 “A New Light in The Harem” at Galeri Nev-Ankara

In 2019, 1000 printed copy newspaper project “6 Kasım 2016” at Torun Ankara

In 2020 “Eros&Psyche” at Galeri Nev-Ankara