Having spent his childhood and early youth in Stockholm, the artist continued his high school education at Galatasaray High School and graduated from Rochester East Ridge High School. He completed his university education at Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts in 1990 in Hüsamettin Koçan's studio. He then completed his master's degree at the same university in 1992. Alpay worked as a lecturer for a while, continued his research at the Salzburg Academy and held his first two exhibitions in the first half of the 90s at Galeri Zon in Ankara, curated by Döne Otyam. Since the mid-1990s, when the artist left her university position, she has been continuing her work in her studios in Istanbul and Ayvalık. After his 1995 solo exhibition at Galerie Les Mondes de l'Art in Paris, Alpay held solo exhibitions in 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2018 and 2019, all at Galeri Nev in Istanbul and Ankara. During this period, his works were exhibited at the State Museum of Painting and Sculpture (1990),...
The artist, whose childhood and early youth were spent in Stockholm, continued her high school education at Galatasaray High School and graduated from Rochester East Ridge High School. She completed her university in 1990 at Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, in the studio of Hüsamettin Koçan. She then received her master’s degree at the same university in 1992. Having worked for a period as a lecturer, she continued her research at the Salzburg Academy and opened her first two exhibitions in the first half of the 1990s at Galeri Zon in Ankara, curated by Döne Otyam. Since leaving her position at the university in the mid-1990s, the artist has been continuing her work in her studios in Istanbul and Ayvalık.
Following her solo exhibition held in 1995 at Galerie Les Mondes de l’Art in Paris, she opened numerous solo exhibitions at Galeri Nev in Istanbul and Ankara in 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2018, and 2019. During this period, her works were included in group exhibitions at the State Painting and Sculpture Museum (1990), Arkeon Gallery, Istanbul (1992), Galeri BM, Istanbul (1993, 1996), Sotheby’s London (1996), AKM, Istanbul (1996), C.A.M Gallery, Istanbul (2002), Galeri Nev (2016, 2022), Pera Museum (2018), AKS, Antalya (2019), Artweeks Akaretler (2022), Atelier Marvy (Izmir, 2022), Gagiad (Gaziantep, 2023), as well as in group exhibitions in cities such as Paris, Cologne, London, Trieste, Düsseldorf, and New York.
Awarded the Grand Prize at the Beijing Biennial in 2006, the artist’s works are held in the collections of Fondation Cartier (Paris), Mitsubishi Foundation (Tokyo), OMM, Odunpazarı Modern Museum (Eskişehir), SwissHotel (Izmir), and in Istanbul in the corporate and private collections of QNB Finansbank, Alarko Holding, Arçelik, Koç, Akbank, TurkishBank, Yıldız Holding, Sabancı, Eczacıbaşı, Boyner, Mudo, PakMaya, ENKA, and the Peninsula Hotel.
