Born in Istanbul in an artist family, Dolce Paganne is a voodoo artist, exporting fairytales to nightmares. In the uncanny valleys of her surreal experiments where she researches the roots of “fear” she often escapes into the smooth aesthetics of “vintage” with both traditional and digital mediums. Graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Graphic Design Department (2008). She completed her masters at Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, with magna cumme laude (2016). Her works has been featured in contemporary art magazines and books (Hi Fructose, Beautiful Bizarre, DPI, Suntup Editions); worked as an illustrator for brands like Nike, Les Benjamins and for book publishers, exhibited in numerous prestigious galleries, cultural centers and outdoor art events around the world, including BOZAR Museum of Modern Art (Brussels, BE), Haven Gallery (NY, USA), Outre (Melbourne, Australia), Gallery X-IST (Istanbul, Turkey) numerous times in New York, Miami, Paris, Milan, Rome in traditional galleries and NFT events. Since 2021 she is an active creative member of NFT space. The advertising campaign that features her artworks created for M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Old’ Movie commissioned by Universal Studios received two awards from Cynopsis Media (2021) She is a fan of horror anime comic books and inspired by various music genres.