Deniz Turan (1983, Izmir) is a visual artist based in London&Istanbul. Her artistic practice primarily focuses on art jewelry, sculptural objects, and analogue collages. Between 2018 and 2024, she pursued her artistic work at Atelier Loy, which she founded in Istanbul, and her pieces have been featured in both national and international exhibitions.

In 2019, she was honored with the Portojoia Award at the Collectiva Meeting International Exhibition in Portugal. In 2024, she relocated to London, where she currently continues her artistic practice in her studio.

In Deniz Turan’s works, created through the connotations of concepts, images, materials themselves, or colors, her primary pursuit is to achieve a quiet, powerful, and protest-driven language against the dominant impositions of the world perceived through our five senses. In her semi-controlled production process, which is open to potential surprises, the only rule she strictly adheres to is emphasizing the importance of thought and care in “creating” or “making.”