Serpil Akdağlı

Serpil Akdağlı is a painter and academic who works as an associate professor at Kütahya Dumlupınar University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting. In works made with various materials, Akdağlı questions the relationship between looking, representation, and authority. In 2026, Akdağlı’s solo exhibition "The Violence of Seeing" opened at the Polytechnic of Coimbra in Portugal. Akdağlı has published articles on the art of Chiharu Shiota, Maurizio Cattelan, and Fernando Botero, and on the image of the door in the visual arts.