Yucel Erdogan

Yücel Erdogan is a Turkish-born American artist based in New York and Vermont. His paintings explore beauty, desire, vulnerability, and the violence beneath the surface of human experience. He paints the human figure as a place where these forces collide — where beauty can become unsettling, desire can become vulnerable, and pain can become impossible to hide.

His figures scream, disappear, resist, surrender, and endure. Moving between figuration and abstraction, he uses the figure not simply to portray a person, but to reveal something beneath the person.

Before devoting himself fully to painting, Yücel spent decades in New York's creative industry as a creative director. He now lives and works in Bennington, Vermont, where his studio is a converted barn, and runs 3rd Eye Gallery in nearby Hoosick Falls, New York.

1993 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
Communication Design Master in Science

1986 Marmara University
Graphic Design Bachelors in Fine Arts