Neslihan Gülbahar Ekinci was born in Istanbul in 1974. She started her illumination training with the classes she took from Zehra Durmuş between 2005-2008, and continued with Nilüfer Kurfeyz at Classical Turkish Arts Foundation. She has been taking classes from Kevser İbrahimoğlu since 2010, and she also studies with Hande Topbaş. Ekinci has participated in many personal and group exhibitions.