Aylin Gürbüz

Aylin Gürbüz, born February 23, 1978, in Edirne, Turkey, is a Turkish painter, academic, and mosaic artist. She graduated as the top student from the Trakya University Faculty of Education, Department of Fine Arts Education, Painting-Work Teaching Program. She completed her master's degree at Trakya University and earned her PhD from Marmara University in 2013.

She has served as a faculty member at Trakya University, where she became a full professor in 2023. Between 2018 and 2024, she was the head of the Department of Fine Arts Education. Gürbüz has held 16 solo exhibitions in Turkey and abroad and participated in over 400 group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally.

Her artistic work often explores themes of individual identity and societal pressure, using the crow as a symbolic figure to represent intelligence, resilience, and dignity. Since 2011, she has developed series such as Guides, The Nameless, and more recently, Philosophers, where the crow figure evolves to represent thinkers and individuals within society. Her philosophical interest led her to pursue undergraduate studies in philosophy at Istanbul University.

She has published over 65 articles in national and international journals and conferences, and authored five books, one of which is an edited volume. Her painting Anonymi 58 received the Best Painting Award at the “Brilliant Strokes” international art competition organized by the Brilliant Brushes Art Foundation in India.