Balcı has been recognized with several fellowships, including an Artist in Residence fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA, and a College Art Association Professional Development Fellowship. She was both a Hot Picks Artist (2012) and a Project Grant recipient (2014) at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NY,[3] and has twice been named a finalist for the Trawick Prize[4] at the Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards in Bethesda, MD for artists from the Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia area (2013 and 2015).[3] Balcı has been featured in several solo and two-person shows in the Washington, DC area, as well as in Maryland and in Istanbul.