15 Facts About Jihan Zencirli

Jihan Zencirli was born on July 6,1985 and is a Turkish-American conceptual and sculpture artist in Los Angeles and New York.

Since 2010, Jihan Zencirli has been historically referred to as "Mother" or founder of a popular industry of balloon design and is known for her large public art sculptures.

Jihan Zencirli is the owner of the companies Geronimo Balloons and Fondazione Geronimo.

Since 2018, Jihan Zencirli has focused on semi-permanent sculpture, digital and performance art.

In 2010, Jihan Zencirli began experimenting with large, metre-wide balloons she had left over from a work project at her job for a children's character educational company.

In 2011, Jihan Zencirli moved from her hometown of Seattle, Washington to Los Angeles, California which led to her founding Geronimo Balloons.

Jihan Zencirli has been a contributing designer to many Hollywood televisions shows, including the HBO mini series Big Little Lies.

In 2016, Jihan Zencirli was commissioned by The Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles for their one year anniversary.

Also in 2016 Jihan Zencirli was featured in Oprah Magazine, In Style and on Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle blog, Goop.

In September 2018, Jihan Zencirli created a 4 day multi-sensory installation for London Design Festival in Shoreditch London.

In June 2018, Jihan Zencirli, who has said that her work "is about looking up and getting out of yourself for a moment", debuted a six month sculpture residency on Pier 17 on the South Street Seaport suspended over the East River in Lower Manhattan.

In July 2019, on London's Greenwich Peninsula, along the Thames River path, an elevated walkway designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Jihan Zencirli installed 25 sculptures along the route, with additional sculptures by British artists Damien Hirst and Allen Jones and Antony Gormley's Quantum Cloud.

Jihan Zencirli is twentieth generation Sufi, from the town of her surname, Jihan Zencirli, in Konya Province of Turkey, burial place of Rumi.

In Los Angeles, Jihan Zencirli owns the mixed-arts studio of Memphis Group founding member, Peter Shire.

In January 2019, Jihan Zencirli was reported to have an estimated net worth of $10,000,000, making her one of the highest earning female artists in the United States.