Ebru Dede was born in Istanbul, Turkey. She graduated with the first honors degree from Marmara University’s Department of Painting in 2008. In 2007, she studied at Accademia di Belle Arti L’Aquila, Italy, through Erasmus. She completed her Ph.D. thesis in 2018 at Yildiz Technical University in the Art and Design Program.

Since 2007 she has attended many national and international exhibitions as well as symposiums and artist residency programs such as X Editional Florence Biennial, Berlin Art Goes Live 2015 and Camac Artist Residency Program France with her paintings, mixed media works, digital art, anime art and video art projects.

Her works of art are within the scope of figurative art. Her research interests are the subject, identity and posthumanism. She is investigating the possibilities of being a subject in social life. The figures in her artworks symbolize the effort to become a subject. She generally works inspired by books on philosophy, psychology, and mythology. “Woman and Identity”, “The Impossibility of the Subject”, “Hybrid Bodies”, “Meeting the Self” and “Subconscious” are the titles of some of her solo exhibitions. Recently, she has been working on the effects of migration on identity.

She lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. She has been teaching at Maltepe University’s Visual Communication Department since 2019 after giving lectures about graphic design, photography and animation in Kadir Has University for 10 years. She received the title of Associate Professor from UAK in 2022. She continues to work for upcoming exhibitions and her academic studies on contemporary art.