Lila Öztüre is a Turkish artist based in Istanbul. She completed her BFA Comics Degree in the School of Visual Arts in New York, in 2026. She loves insects, old toys, cats, music, fish, retro gaming and sleeping. Her art is usually about nostalgia, music and existentialism. Combining beauty with disturbing imagery, creating contrast. When not drawing, she dabbles in vinyl collecting and tattooing, which arguably might also count as drawing. She also loves printmaking such as lino-printing, riso-printing and screen-printing and zine-making.
me in museum of nostalgia in NY, taken by Max Sinofsky with my digital camera
She sold zines in Desert Island and Forbidden Planet in New York, sold at art markets and more. Got an Archie Goodwin Award and School of Visual Arts Alumni Award for her comic related projects. Studied in SVA with a 90k dollar scholarship and got a certificate for being on the top precantage of students in her senior year. Featured in multiple zine and anthology projects such as SVA INK and Forbidden Drawings. Also had a collaboration with Ororo Sushi in Istanbul for a personal exhibition :)
