Gulay Schorr, a Turkish citizen married to an American citizen, has lived in the United States since 1995 where she is working as a freelance artist.

Gulay is currently living in northern New Jersey. Previously she lived in Maryland, where she worked at the American-Turkish Council in Washington, DC, and earned a bachelor’s degree in Studio Art from University of Maryland , and in Michigan, where she studied painting at Center for Creative Studies and Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center.

Gulay is originally from Istanbul, Turkey, and has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Istanbul University.

She was born in 1966, in Trabzon, Turkey. She has a nine year old daughter.