Sevinç Çalhanoğlu is an artist and researcher whose works focus on memory of space, narratives, and the transformational aspects of literature. In addition to poems and essays, she creates multidisciplinary literary works incorporating sound and photography. Among the readings and exhibitions she participated in are; in the footsteps of a poem, YFD 10: One Must Continue, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul (2019); Read My World Festival, Amsterdam (2018); Double Language performance series, Soloway Gallery, New York (2018); Vanishing Mediator, Evliyagil Museum, Ankara (2018); "But the city remains the same", HER HÂL, Salt Galata, Istanbul (2017), and Sea of not seeing, Tiny Office, Consulate of Sweden, Istanbul (2017). 

Çalhanoğlu presented her article titled “How did the Istanbul Biennial transform the city?’’ at the Annual Meeting of American Folklore Society (2015). She is the author of two poetry books in Turkish: Evde bir gezinti (Perifer-ik) (Nod Publications, 2016), and Et/ve/Fal (Heterotopya Publications, 2017).

Sevinç Çalhanoğlu is currently working as a researcher for Kundura Hafiza, an archive and oral history project of an old shoe factory in Istanbul.