Işıl Eğrikavuk (PhD) studied Western literature at Boğaziçi University (Istanbul) and then completed her MFA in Performance Art at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) with the Koç Foundation scholarship. She earned her PhD in 2021 from Istanbul Bilgi University, with a thesis titled From A Political Protest to An Art Exhibition: Building Interconnectedness Through Dialogue-Based Art. Since 2017, she lives in Berlin and works as a faculty member at Berlin University of Arts (UdK), in the Media and Communication Department.