Özlem Kocadağ was born in Istanbul in 1976. She started studying miniature at İSMEK with Meral Aşan in 2008, and received her license after two years of training. Kocadağ continued her miniature studies with Berrin Çakin Güç at the Classical Arts Foundation, and still takes miniature classes from Dilek Yerlikaya. One of her works was exhibited in the project named “Love 2010”.