Seniha Ünay was born in 1987 in Silifke district of Mersin. She graduated from Mersin Nevit Kodallı Anatolian Fine Arts High School Painting Department in 2005 and from Hacettepe University Fine Arts Faculty Painting Department in 2009. In 2015, she completed the Integrated Doctorate Program in Hacettepe University Fine Arts Institute Painting Department as a TEV scholarship holder.
In 2011, she continued her workshops in the guest artist program of the Austrian Ministry of Culture, Art and Education and as an invited artist at Ankara Cer Modern Arts Center. In 2015, she received an exhibition award at the Siemens Sanat “Borders Orbits Competition” and a success award at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism “Young Contemporary Art Project Competition”. She realized various exhibitions and projects with the True Villains Art Collective, which was founded in 2012 and of which she is a founding member. She lives and works in Düzce.
Garden Day
Mixed media, 2023
The project titled "Garden Day" is based on the story of Bearice, who is locked in a garden in Nathaniel Hawthorne's book "Rapaccini's Daughter", and the women who appear in photographs taken in the garden in a family album. In the book, the life of Rapaccini's daughter Beatrice continues in the garden created by her scientist father; It disappears under the influence of the other two male characters who hold the rights to reason, science and experiment. For Beatrice, nature is a man-made garden; For the women who appear in front of the gardens, it turns into a nature that they identify with with all its liveliness and will. At the intersection of these two stories, the project focuses on women and non-human creatures standing at the border of nature and culture.
