Can Yesiloglu

He was born in 1981 as first and only child of a desinator mother and a gravur worker father. His interest to painting began in İzmir where he born and grew up. He spent his twenty’s on focusing painting and drawing works for bring subconscious images to light.

He got intimate with active art life closer in Turkey after moving in İstanbul in 2008. He stood as founder of Surrealist Action Turkey, Periferi Collective etc. He participated in many interdisciplinary exhibitions and organisations.

The artist opened his first personel exhibit as Ottomatik Dreams in G-Art Gallery in 2013 and he keeps his all arts in

Generally dream world and subconscious images come to the forefront in artist’s works. He enjoys fictionalise stories in utopic-distopic universes that reckoning with the world he lives in. He sees that questioning universe, nature, human and time as basic motivation source.

He works on canvas, paper, found objects and daily objects. Détournement, assemblage are one of the production types that he interested. The artist shows experimental behavior in his lots of stages of life, we also can see the effects of automatism in some of his works.

He has works that interfered by pencil, dry paint, pen, ink and mar...

Solo Exhibitions
2013 Ottomatic Dreams – İstanbul – Gallery G-Art

Featured Exhibitions
2015 Indie Line – Art Sümer / İstanbul
2015 Amarcord – Tüyap Artist/İstanbul
2015 Fake Breast – Gallery Artist / İstanbul
2015 Landscape – Gallery 44A / İstanbul
2014 Intefinite Exhibition – Kare Art / İstanbul
2014 HOWL Exhibit – Gallery 44A / İstanbul
2014 Twisted Surrealism – IO Non Profit Space / İzmir
2012 Reality Terror – Depo / İstanbul
2012 UBIK Project – Hayaka Artı / İstanbul
2011 Ultima M. Art Project / Slovenia
2011 Destruction 2011 - Surrealist Action Turkey / İstanbul
2010 Public Enemy – Kargart / İstanbul
2010 Offside Fear – Hayalbaz / İzmir
2009 Obscene – Kargart / İstanbul
2008 London International Surrealism Fest – England
2008 This is not a Situationist Exhibiton – Daralan / İstanbul
2007 Intervention – Hafriyat-Karaköy / İstanbul
2006 First Meeting With Daylight – Hayalbaz / İzmir