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Ayse

Ipekdokuyan

Drawing and Painting

“Questions to answer, answers to question”

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Ayşe İpekdokuyan is an interdisciplinary visual artist from Turkey, currently based in Toronto.Her practice unfolds through questions—about identity, memory, and the quiet tension between what is felt and what can be seen. Drawing from her experience of Turkish identity across distance, she perceives the self as something unstable, layered, and constantly shifting. Figures, forms, and gestures emerge and fade, often embodying multiple emotional states simultaneously. Nothing remains fixed; meaning is fluid. Her process is intuitive and reflective, built through repetition, erasure, and accumulation. Marks are left, removed, and reworked, allowing traces of uncertainty to remain visible. These traces are not mistakes but evidence of thinking, of feeling, of searching. Each work becomes less an answer and more a pause in an ongoing conversation—one that lingers somewhere between knowing and not knowing.
OCAD U - Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Major Completed, 2026

Drawing Painting Image Transfer

2026, Public Faith and Private Lives
Toronto
2025, Faces and Traces: A Cross Boarder Portrait Project
Scene Metrospace, Michigan
2025, Look Inside-Open House, Curator
OCAD University, Toronto
2025, Transverse's Once and More
OCAD University, Toronto
2025, Faces and Traces: A Cross Boarder Portrait Project
STACKT Market, Toronto
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