Nihal completed her Bachelors in Arts in Photography at the Mimar Sinan University Fine Arts Faculty. She went on to finish her masters at the Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty. She has been working as a professional fashion and advertising photographer since 1998. She also works actively in the field of documentary and portrait photography. Same time Nihal Gündüz  has focused his work on alternative photography. She participated in many domestic and international exhibitions.She taught “Fashion Photography” at YEDİTEPE University, Faculty of Fine Arts in  2009-2016 and  Nişantaşı University in 2016-2017 She has been teaching Fashion Photography at Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts since 2018

• “Beginning from the Middle” Mix exhibiton, Feshane, İstanbul,2023
• Wild Spirit, Solo Online Exhibition, Istanbul Concept Gallery, İstanbul 2020
• Face to Face I Self Portait,  and  “Walk in my shoes “ group exhibition 360 Degrees of Love Festival Exhibition, 42 Maslak, İstanbul 2020
• Essence,  The Adahan expedition,  mixed exhibition, Cologne, GERMANY, 2019
• Scream and Downfall, Bursa Fotofest, Bursa,  2019
• You’re the Hero, Group exhibition 360 Degrees of Love Festival Exhibition The Marmara PERA, İstanbul 2019
• I,The Bird , 10×10, Istanbul Concept Galery, İstanbul, 2018               
• Turkey from past to present ,2016, MEXICAN
• The Last Resident of Tophane, SILK ROAD CULTURAL FESTIVAL in GYEONGJU, KORE  ,2015
• The Last Resident of Tophane, Şehir Üniversity, Merdivenaltı art Galery, İstanbul, 2014
• Mercy, Mix exhibition 360 Degrees of Love Festival Exhibition. Beyoğlu Art Gallery, İstanbul 2014,
• The Last Resident of Tophane, ” Türkan Saylan Culture Center, İstanbul,2014
• The Last Resident of Tophane,” Bursa FOTOFEST, BURSA  2013
• FREIUNDNEUNZIG, Berlin, GERMANY 2014,
• The Last Resident of Tophane,  TUYAP Arist 2012 22nd International Istanbul Art Fair, 2012 Curator: Işık Gençoğlu 2012
• World of Sergeants, photo exhibition (Nihal Gündüz & Kuzey Çelebiler), Ankara ,2014
• Love sets you fly , Group exhibition ,The Eternal Taste of Love Exhibition, Camhane , 2012
• 100^th Anniversary of the The Turkish Air Forces prepared for New Year’s Eve “ATTRACTING THE FUTURE TODAY”  Mixed Photography  Exhibition, exhibited in 17 cities in Turkey, 2011
• “The Eternal Taste of Love Exhibition 2011 ” Group photography exhibition, 2011
• The 2^nd  of Internastional Advertising Photographers Exhibition in Seul , KAPA (Korea Advertising Photographers Association), 2011
• Artium Art House-Photo Art Auction and group exhibitions, 2011
• My Son and my Father, The Eternal Taste of Love Exhibition 2010,İstanbul, 2010
• The Haliç Shipyard Faces, solo photo exhibition, 2010
  The Haliç Shipyard Faces, photography and memoir book, 2010
• TRT TURK ” Turkey throughout the Times” series of short films for the program of advisor and portrait photographs, 2009
• Mixed exhibition  entitled “Owl’s Frames” at the Pera Museum, with other Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Photography Dept. Alumni Commemorating the 30th Aniversary, 2008
• Maiden’s Tower, from the past to the future, a book consisting mainly of documentary photographs, 2000