Biography
 

Born in Turkey in 1978, Payidar Şeyma Alışır graduated from the Department of Graphic

Arts and Graphic Design at Işık University, Faculty of Fine Arts. She began her

professional career in graphic design and worked for many years as an Art Director across

advertising, television, series, and magazine productions. Alongside her professional

career, she has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Turkey and internationally.
 

Alışır’s artistic practice brings together photography, 3D, AI, and digital image-making.

Her works develop through a process of transforming, layering, and digitally

reconstructing images and elements produced and photographed in her studio.
 

Her practice explores identity, memory, cultural heritage, and the inner world. By bringing

physical and digitally constructed imagery into dialogue, Alışır creates layered visual

compositions in which personal memory intersects with collective cultural memory.

Selected Exhibitions

2026, "Kobalt Rotalar", Sule Gazi Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
2026, "Photo London", Vision Art Platform, London, United Kingdom.
2026, "CI Bloom", Vision Art Platform, Istanbul, Turkey. 
2025, "Contemporary Istanbul '20", Vision Art Platform, Istanbul, Turkey.
2025, "What Will Not Bend, Will Break", Vision Art Platform, London, United Kingdom.

2025, "Photo London", Vision Art Platform, London, United Kingdom.
2025," Kesişmeler I Intersections", Vision Art Platform, Istanbul, Turkey.
2025, "CI Bloom", Vision Art Platform, Istanbul, Turkey. 
2024, "Contemporary Istanbul '19", Vision Art Platform, Istanbul, Turkey. 
2024, "CI Bloom", Vision Art Platform, Istanbul, Turkey. 
2024, "Dejavu", Kepler Pavilion, İzmir, Turkey. 

2023, "Contemporary Istanbul '18", Difo Art, Istanbul, Turkey. 

2015, "No Stop Europa Giovani" Theatro Dei Dioscuri al Quirnale, Rome, Italy. 

2015, "Istanbul Exlibris Society", Largo Art Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria.

2014, "1st National Ex-libris Congress Exhibition", Turkey-Bulgaria-Poland. 

2014, "Women Artists Passing The Way Through Işık Fine Arts", Gallery Işık Teşvikiye, Istanbul, Turkey. 

2013, “9/90”, Permanent Delegation of Turkey to the European Union,  Brussel, Belgium. 

2013, “Özgür ve 90”, Turkish Embassy in Berlin, Germany. 

2013, “19 Young Turkish Artists", Muzeul de Arta, Constanza, Romania.

2011, “First International Exlibris Competition for Students and Creative People", Saint Petersburg, Russia. 

2011, “Young Communicators on the Path to EU Competition”, Istanbul, Turkey.