Ahmet Albayrak

Albayrak was born in 1982 in Kayseri, Turkey, and graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Erciyes University (ERU) in 2003. He completed his master’s degree in 2005 and earned a Ph.D. in 2008 from the Institute of Fine Arts at Marmara University. Since 2009, following a period in Istanbul, Albayrak has been living and working in Kayseri and Ankara. He has received several awards from art competitions held in various cities and has participated in exhibitions at museums and biennials. His works have been exhibited in prominent institutions such as Istanbul Modern, the University of Cambridge, and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), as well as in countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, France, South Korea, the Netherlands, Mexico, and Russia.Albayrak is a former resident artist at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York. He is currently a professor at Erciyes University. He has received four awards from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. In addition to teaching studio and atelier courses at the Faculty of Fine Arts, he has also taught in the Faculty of Architecture, offering interdisciplinary courses on art and architecture. He has served as an advisor and curator for the Central Bank of Turkey and taught at the Diplomacy Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2021, he was appointed Chairman of the Board of TRT (Turkish Radio and Television Corporation).