Aslihan Kaplan Bayrak

Aslıhan Kaplan Bayrak is an Istanbul-based painter and printmaker whose practice brings together the structural logic of engineering and the conceptual depth of philosophy within an intuitive, materially driven artistic process. She received her BFA in Painting from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and later earned a BA in Philosophy from Anadolu University. Rather than defining her work through these disciplines, she transforms their influence into a visual language rooted in perception, intuition, and lived experience.

Her work begins not with fixed concepts but with moments of attention—a sensation, a landscape, a passage from a book, or an unexpected encounter—that gradually unfold into visual form. Instead of illustrating ideas, she allows the materials themselves to lead the process, embracing uncertainty, slowness, and discovery. Each work becomes a record of perception, where intuition and making evolve together, and meaning emerges through the act of creation rather than preceding it.

Working across oil painting, watercolor, drawing, mixed media, printmaking, video, and installation, Bayrak explores the subtle relationships between human experience and the more-than-human world. Through layered surfaces, translucent form...

2003-2007graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Painting Branch (graduated with the first degree of honor)
2019-2024 Anadolu University, Philosophy Department
1993-1997 Yildiz Technical University, Electronics and Communication Engineering.

2026 Mute Speech(Video art & installation) Edirne Bienal
2025 Deep Oscillations Silent Echos /Duo Exhbition /Labirent Sanat
2024 Crystal Labyrinth collective exhibition /Labirent Sanat
2024 Star-Island solo exhibition / Labirent Sanat
2023 Knot Records solo exhibition / Labirent Sanat

Impact III Printmaking group exhibitions
• NorthSite Contemporary Arts, Cairns, Qld, Australia – 04 Feb to 12 Mar 2022

• Printopia, Corban’s Estate Art Centre, Auckland, New Zealand – 07 to 08 May 2022

• Thompson Rivers University Gallery, Kamloops, Canada – 01 to 29 Sep 2022

• Impact 12 International Print Conference, University of Western England, Bristol, United Kingdom – 23 to 24 Sep 2022

• Gallerie Forma, Buenos Aries, Argentina – 05 Nov to 02 Dec 2022

• Limerick School of Art and Design, Technological University of the Shannon, Ireland – 07 to 18 Nov 2022

2022 Proxemics / Labirent Sanat
2021 Yüzleşme Çağdaş Mağusa Gravürleri Sergisi / Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi /Kıbrıs
2021 Bellek Baskı Resim Sergisi / Milli Arşiv ve Araştırma Dairesi Girne, KKTC
2020 Uluslararası Artvital Disiplinlerarası Karma Sergi
2020 Karma / Terakki Vakfı Sanat Galerisi
2020 Metanoia / Labirent Sanat
2020 Atatürk Sonsuzluğa 82. Yılda 82 Eser Sergisi
2020 Ul...