Welcome! I’m an Istanbul-born painter living in the United States. My art studio is outside Philadelphia. I’m also an economist and currently hold a Senior Lecturer in Finance position at the Wharton School of Business.
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Here is some up-to-date information about me:
I have recently been selected by the State Department to have paintings exhibited in Ambassador Residences.
I currently teach at the Wharton School of Business. My primary academic interests are behavioral economics and art markets. I am honored to have been awarded Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, William G. Whitney Award for Distinguished Teaching at the Wharton School of Business and Harvard University's Certificate of Distinction in Teaching in recent years.
Recent exhibits:
Waverly Heights, PA, 2024
Villanova University Art Gallery, PA, 2023
Studio Exhibit, Bryn Mawr, PA, 2023
Selected media appearances:
Mag Magazine, “Naïve Expressionist”, Artist Feature, 2021
“Kabina Sigamayanlar”, a podcast on art, 2020
An interview with Seda Selek, Sofos Istanbul (in Turkish). Link
Milliyet (highest circulating Turkish daily): Front page coverage, 2020. Link
Quoted in Bloomberg on Loss Aversion. Link
Featured at Forbes/Investing: Millennials Beware: There Are Downsides To Debt-Free Living. Link.
Penn "Women in Art" Initiative Interview. Link
"Professor Spotlight: Economics and Art need not be mutually exclusive", The Daily Pennsylvanian. Link.
Selected talks:
Bosphorus Universtiy Investment Club, “NFTs in Art”, 2021.
The NFT market, Wharton Art Club Panel, 2021.
Artist Talk, Sofos Istanbul, 2020.
Artist Feature, SPOT Contemporary Art Projects, 2020.
Art Markets During Covid, Wharton Art Club, December 2020
Should we invest in the art market? Wharton Art Club, October 1, 2019
Bryn Mawr College, "The Dubious Economics of the Art Market", October 2017
Sirius XM Business Radio, “Knowledge@Wharton,” discussed Labor Market Participation of Artists
Sirius XM Business Radio, “Knowledge@Wharton”, discussed the Business of Art, Recent Auctions, Venice Biennial.
"The Art Market: An Economist's Perspective," at Harvard Business School.
“Consumer Judgment” lecture, Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, UPenn Medical School.
"Can a $5 garage sale painting ever be worth $40 million? The Irresistible Economics of the Art World." Huntsman Program Preceptorial, Wharton.
“Exploring the relationship between economics and art through Sol LeWitt” , Davis Museum, MA