Özge Samancı, a media artist and graphic novelist, is an associate professor at Northwestern University’s School of Communication. Her interactive installations have been exhibited internationally at venues such as Museu do Amanhã, Siggraph Art Gallery, FILE Festival, Currents New Media, The Tech Museum of Innovation, WRO Media Art Biennial, Athens International Festival of Digital Arts and New Media, Piksel Electronic Arts Festival, ISEA and Science Gallery.

Her graphic memoir, “Dare to Disappoint” (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2015) has been translated into six languages. Her second graphic novel, “Evil Eyes Sea” (Uncivilized Books, 2024), was named one of The Guardian’s best graphic novels of 2024 and won the 2025 Cartoonist Studio Prize. It is slated for translation into French and German. Her drawings have appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and Slate Magazine.

Samancı has received several awards, including the Berlin Prize in 2017, when she was also the Holtzbrinck Visual Arts Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. She was honoured with the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Alumni Award (2020) from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Artist Fellowship Award in Media Arts (2023) from the Illinois Arts Council.