Exercises in Sharing: Aping Me Aping You, Unique wooden structure/sculpture with photos & video, 2.6 x 2.6 x 1.6 m, 2007

It's me garden, innit?, Unique wooden structure/sculpture, flower pot, soil, photos & video, 1.8 x 2.4 x 1.6 m, 2007

This pigeon went to the forest, this pigeon went to the city, Inkjets on paper, 21 x 29.7 cm, 2008

Excerpts From Alfred Hitchcock`s The Birds, Inkjet on paper, 9 x 21 cm, 2008

This pigeon went to the forest, this pigeon went to the city, Inkjets on paper, 21 x 29.7 cm, 2008

Mirrorworld, C-Print, 19 cm x 14 cm, 2008

Deposit (Spring Deficit: After Dubai, After Hammons, and after the politics of white noise), Mirror, metal structure, speaker, sand and sound equipment, 2008

Born 1975 in Ankara, Turkey; lives and works in the UK and Turkey. Altay received his PhD in Art, Design, and Architecture from Bilkent University in 2004. He has a post-graduate degree in Critical Studies from Malmö Art Academy and Lund University, Sweden, and a background in Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, with an M.F.A. and a B.F.A. from Bilkent University. Although Altay continues to teach and move in architectural circles, he is better known as an artist. His installations of videos, mappings, textbooks and photographs incorporate different forms of research of human interaction in urban environments. To create these dense works Altay studies  symptoms of ‘mis-use’, or improvised spatial architectures in the city, as well as hidden structures of support, unauthorised systems of organisation and models of co-habitation. His work has been included in exhibitions such as the Istanbul Biennial (2003), Havana Biennial (2003), Busan Biennial (2006); and in museums and galleries such as the Walker Art Center (USA), Van Abbemuseum (Netherlands), ZKM (Germany), P.S.1 MoMA (USA), Sala Rekalde (Spain), and Platform Garanti (Turkey).