Erhan Özışıklı

Erhan Özışıklı was born in Istanbul in 1980. He finished his high school education at Istanbul High School for Boys in 1999. He graduated from the Painting Department in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Mimar Sinan University in 2005. He then completed his master’s degree at his alma mater. Özışıklı creates cryptic works that at a glance are reminiscent of collage, with apparently disparate figures arranged in spatially confused interiors. He has had several solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions in Turkey. He published the exhibition catalogue, Akşamları Yemekten Sonra / Evenings after dinner (Istanbul: X-ist, 2007). Currently, Özışıklı continues his work in Istanbul.

Reference: artxist.com, Unleashed Contemporary Art from Turkey, (ed. Hossein Amirsadeghi, London: TransGlobe Publishing, 2010), p. 236-237.