About the Artist

Born in Turkey, Ipek Keylansoy discovered her bond with painting long before she learned the language of words. From an early age, colors, textures, and silent forms became her way of understanding the world. Though she later studied law and pursued a successful legal career, the call of art was constant — an invisible thread weaving through every chapter of her life.

In 2024, after relocating from Turkey to the United States, she turned fully toward painting, embracing it not just as an artistic pursuit but as a way of being. Her canvases reflect a dialogue between memory and emotion, light and stillness. Each work carries traces of her inner landscapes as well as the shifting impressions of her surroundings.

Throughout her journey, Keylansoy has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, receiving awards in art competitions organized by prominent institutions in Turkey. Just before her move to the U.S., she was honored with an Honorable Mention in a New York painting competition — a symbolic bridge between her two worlds.

Beyond the canvas, her creativity has found other forms: she wrote and illustrated a children’s storybook, and her paintings have adorned the lobbies of renowned hotels and restaurants, as well as the pages of design and literary magazines.

For Keylansoy, art is not a profession — it is an act of presence, a visual language through which silence speaks. While all of her works created in Turkey found their homes through galleries, her website features both earlier and recent works, representing the ongoing evolution of her artistic voice — a lifelong conversation with color, form, and the spaces between them.

Exhibitions & Awards

• Group and solo exhibitions in Turkey and the United States.
• Awards from competitions organized by respected Turkish institutions.
• Honorable Mention in a New York painting competition (prior to relocating to the U.S.).