Pinar Ture Gursoy is a portrait and figurative painter who was born in 1965 in Istanbul. She completed her higher education in Urban and Regional Planning in Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul. Between 2010 and 2014, she got back to university and graduated from BA in Philosophy from Anadolu University with distinction. While studying philosophy, she was also living on and off in Paris and participating to workshops at the “Académie de la Grande Chaumière” in Paris.   During 2015-2018, in this time she lived on and off in London. In this period she graduated from MSc in Museum Management from “Istanbul University”.  She has been many Group and solo exhibiting and auctions in various Turkish cities and also abroad in Tokyo, Lucern, Deventer, Venice, Tiran, Napoli, Marakkesh, Thessaloniki, London etc... Some of her works are included in the collection of Museum of Tolentino in Italy for Biennial BIUMOR(new), TEV(Turkish Education Foundation) and Portart by Hakan Körpi/ UPSD etc. She currently lives and works in her homestudio in Istanbul. She was shortlisted among thousands of international competitors and works at the UK VAO Visual Art Open 2021 Art Awards, where she participated with a single work.