Zeynep Ozkan is a visual artist, born in Istanbul (1974), living and working in London. Her work is an intuitive exploration of colour, memory and our longing to connect to each other and to nature.
Her work focuses on how memory re-creates, distorts, adds to and subtracts from our direct experiences. She aims her imagery to carry with it something observed but incomplete, blurring the lines between observation, imagination and memory, fluctuating between abstraction and figuration.
zeynep.ozkan@gmail.com
︎ @zozkan
Her work focuses on how memory re-creates, distorts, adds to and subtracts from our direct experiences. She aims her imagery to carry with it something observed but incomplete, blurring the lines between observation, imagination and memory, fluctuating between abstraction and figuration.
zeynep.ozkan@gmail.com
︎ @zozkan
Education
2019 The Royal Drawing School, London, Postgraduate Scholarship, The Drawing Year.
2000 MA in Philosophy UCL, London, UK
2019 The Royal Drawing School, London, Postgraduate Scholarship, The Drawing Year.
2000 MA in Philosophy UCL, London, UK
Group exhibitions
Life on Venus II, The Tub & The Auction Collective, February 2021
Curated for Covid, May 2020
The Drawing Year - End of Year Exhibition, Royal Drawing School Gallery, November 2019-January 2020
The Drawing Year - Open Studios, SPACE Studios, December 2019
Best of the Drawing Year 2019, Christie’s, London, November 2019
Greek Street Art Show: Group exhibition at Gallery Maison Bertaux in Soho, London.
Residencies
Borgo Pignano, Italy, December 2022
Borgo Pignano, Italy, July 2019
Collections
Sir Michael Moritz KBE
The Royal Collection