Tuba Kandemir was born in Rize in 1982. She started working on the art of illumination in 1998, and continued her training with Nilüfer Kurfeyz at the History and Nature Foundation. Kandemir, who took ruq’ah classes from Hasan Çelebi for six months, graduated from at the Classical Turkish Arts Center at Yıldız Palace Şale Kiosk. She has been participating in many group exhibitions since 1998.