Through an expanded painting practice, Turkish-Canadian artist Elif Saydam uses the language of ornamentation and decoration to rearrange systems of valuation and emphasis. Recent solo and group exhibitions include RAUS at Franz Kaka (Toronto); Hospitality at Audain, Simon Fraser University Galleries (Vancouver); A Crack We Sprout Through at SANATORIUM (Istanbul); it's not you it's me at Sentiment (Zürich); Stealth at Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle (Munich); Eviction Notice at Oakville Galleries Gairloch Gardens (Ontario); Cleaning up the Neighborhood at All Stars (Lausanne); Lose Enden at Kunsthalle Bern (Bern); F*rgiveness at Tanya Leighton (Berlin); and ...schläft sich durch at Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (Hamburg).

Saydam's first monograph TWO CENTS was published in 2022 with Mousse Publishing (Italy) and they frequently collaborate on interdisciplinary text-based projects with other artists and writers. Saydam lives and works between Berlin, Germany, and İzmir, Türkiye.