Biography

She completed her undergraduate studies in 2006 at the Department of Industrial Product Design at Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts. After earning her master’s degree at Parsons School of Design in New York, she worked as a designer in New York for a period before returning to Istanbul.

She began her academic career as a lecturer in the Department of Industrial Product Design at Arel University in Istanbul. During the same period, she established her own art and design studio in Sıraselviler and began her doctoral studies at Işık University.

In 2013, she began teaching Higher Level Visual Arts (Visual Arts HL) within the International Baccalaureate (IB) Programme at Eyüboğlu Educational Institutions. Focusing on the relationship between art education and psychology, she completed her doctoral dissertation, entitled “An Educational Model for Identifying Psychological Disorders in Secondary School Students,” in 2019.

In 2023, she also began teaching visual arts at İSTEK Foundation Atanur Oğuz Schools. In 2024, she stepped away from school-level teaching to focus on her artistic practice, her independent studio work, and her academic career in higher education.

Since the 2025–2026 academic year, Kireç has continued her academic career as an Assistant Professor at universities, teaching courses in visual culture, art education, art, and design while pursuing her academic research. She is currently working toward her associate professorship, preparing national and international academic publications, and participating in scholarly meetings, symposia, and conferences.

Artistic Approach

Bringing together her identities as both an academic and an artist, Kireç explores themes such as the inner world of the individual, memory, nature, the sea, journeys, and visual perception. Her works combine figurative and abstract elements, with human silhouettes, waves, geometric forms, and symbolic motifs forming a recurring visual language. The relationship between black, white, and gold is particularly prominent in her work, serving as a visual expression of light, darkness, time, and memory.

Rather than treating her artistic practice and academic research as separate fields, Kireç approaches them as interconnected intellectual and creative processes that continuously inform one another. Her research in visual culture, art education, and contemporary visual narratives also contributes to the conceptual foundations of her artistic practice.

Exhibitions and Current Work

Kireç regularly presents her work to audiences through solo and group exhibitions while continuing her artistic production. In addition to painting, she experiments with different materials and forms of visual expression, developing new projects that bring together art, design, and academic research.

Today, she continues her practice at the intersection of her roles as an artist, academic, and art educator, simultaneously pursuing academic publications, university teaching, exhibitions, and independent artistic production.