Gokcen Erkilic is a transdisciplinary artist, architect, cartographer, researcher, and educator. Her practice focuses on mapping watery bodies, borders, and planetary health. She uses perspectives of critical mapping, feminist geography, and spatial justice in her initiative Coastliner Lab, where she challenges traditional forms of mapping to explore its decolonial and social agency with art and technology.

Her works have been published, exhibited, and performed on various platforms globally such as Sharjah Biennial, Arts Letters and Numbers, Materia Arquitectura, Salt Research, Dirty Drawings, Arter, Yapı Kredi Culture and Arts, Pera Museum, and Manifold Press.

Gökçen is currently teaching at Northeastern University College of Art Media and Design in Art+Design division.

She is affiliated with metaLAB Harvard, and NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science.

She is a graduate of Middle East Technical University, Department of Architecture in Ankara. She holds a master's degree from Istanbul Bilgi University in Architectural and Urban Design (2012) and a PhD from Istanbul Technical University with her thesis “This is not a line”: Critical Delineation of the Coastline in Istanbul” (2019). She was a visiting researcher at Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies (2021-23).