Emre Cicek was born in Ankara in 1989. He is a student of Istanbul University, Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation and Department of Sociology. In 2010, he took marbling classes from Ayşe Özlem Şişman, and continued his marbling studies at Bağlarbaşı Cultural Center in the Turkish Islamic Arts Specialization Center. Çiçek was awarded with encouragement awards by the Classical Turkish Arts Foundation in the competitions organized in 2015 and 2017.