Bala Kavlakoğlu has graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Art University, Graphics Design Department in 1988. She had a distinguished career as an art director and design consultant. She started printmaking, which led her to sculpture and painting.

All the while earning an additional Bachelor's Degree in philosophy, her endless curiosity made her a lifelong learner with current interests in a range of fields including chemistry and physics. She likes to combine her art with science, like an alchemist, embracing the coincidental during the process.

In her work, she reflects the stories of soul-stirring journeys through ever-deepening layers on uncanny grounds. Her art, while depicting single moments of different beginnings in life, encompasses questions rather than biased and cliché responses.

Bala Kavlakoğlu currently lives in Istanbul and works in her studio there.