Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Meet the Artist
Ayse
Ipekdokuyan
Drawing and Painting
“Questions to answer, answers to question”

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.
Drawing Painting Image Transfer
2026, Public Faith and Private Lives
Toronto
2025, Look Inside-Open House, Curator
OCAD University, Toronto

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