Born in Mus, Eastern Turkey, Güler Ates lives and works in the UK. She graduated in 2008 from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Fine Art. She is currently a Print Tutor at the Royal Academy Schools. Güler Ates' multidisciplinary work encompasses video, photography, printmaking, and performance, through which she explores her experience of identity, diaspora and cultural displacement. Her artworks can be found in the UK's Government Art Collection, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Ben Uri Gallery & Museum in London; the Oude Kerk, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, and the Museum Van Loon in Amsterdam; the Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR) in Rio de Janeiro; and the Museum of Oriental Art in Turin. Ates has undertaken solo exhibitions at the Anupa Mehta Contemporary Art in December 2022; at the Museum of Oriental Art, Turin in 2020; at Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam in 2017; at the Unseen Photo Festival, Amsterdam, London in 2016; Spazio Nea, Naples in 2015; at Marcelle Joseph Projects, London; Instituto Inclusartiz, Rio de Janeiro in 2014; at Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam and at the Royal Academy of Arts' Café Gallery, London in 2013; at The Loft, Lower Parel, Mumbai in 2012.