Zehra Canan Bayer was born in Trabzon in 1971. After completing her BA in Art History at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, she completed her MA in History of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University and her PhD in Western Art and Contemporary Art at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. She studied "Military Painter Hüseyin Zekai Pasha and His Works" in her undergraduate program, "A Foreign Architect in Turkey: William James Smith" in her Master's program and "Contributions of Turkish Painters of the Republican Era to the Development of Turkish Painting with Their Writings" in her PhD program.
2010 she joined Kocaeli University Faculty of Fine Arts, Faculty of Basic Arts as a Dr. Lecturer. In 2010, she started to carry out his academic studies at Kocaeli University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Basic Education; In 2020, she was entitled to receive the title of Associate Professor. The academician, who still continues to work as a faculty member in the same institution, has two published books, "Bibliography of Exhibitions in Cumhuriyet Press" and "Cumhuriyet's Painter Writings".