Filiz Soyak is an interdisciplinary artist exploring themes of consciousness, memory, and time through intuitive mark-making in painting, fiber, clay, installation, and sound. After becoming a mother in 2016, her work turned further inward seeking meaning through stillness and by connecting to her intuition. Mindfulness practices including meditation and breathwork have become integral to her work, as has communing with nature. Her work is created in synchronicity with her breath. 

Filiz was born in 1979 in Belgium to a Turkish father and Swedish mother. She grew up in Japan, before moving to the United States. Filiz found her comfort in creating early on; art became the language that allowed her to process and adapt to so many different experiences.

Filiz earned a B.A. in Visual Art from the University of Vermont in 2001, followed by a M.Ed. in Visual Art Education from Lesley University in 2008. From 2004-2008 Filiz was a full time resident and an active community member of the historical Fort Point Arts Community in Boston, Massachusetts. After spending a year in Amman, Jordan, then another year in Barbados, teaching art,  design, and technology, Filiz landed in Brooklyn, New York in 2010. In 2017 she moved with her husband and daughter from Brooklyn, to Hudson, New York to be closer to nature and to establish a slower, more grounded and conscious lifestyle.

Filiz's work has been widely exhibited and collected internationally since 2000, and is included in permanent museum collections in Japan.