Merve Çanakçı was born in 1982 in Ordu, Turkey. She got her bachelor degree in painting in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul. The artist had solo exhibitions at Artsümer Gallery (Istanbul, 2010-2020) and her works have been exhibited at numerous group shows including Bank / Blank (48 Stunden Neukölln, Alte Sparkasse,Berlin, 2018), A Room of Our Own (Ark Kültür, Istanbul, 2017), Stay with Me( Apartment Project, Berlin, 2014), A dream… but not Yours( National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., 2010). Artist, currently lives and works in Germany.