İpek Duben holds degrees from the University of Chicago (MA), the New York Studio School, and Mimar Sinan University (PhD), and she has also studied political science and sociology. Her educational background informs her research-based work, which focuses on issues of identity, especially gender, prejudice, migration, and memory. While her early work consisted mostly of paintings and drawings, since the 1990s the artist has diversified her output to include artists’ books, sound, installation, and video.