ARTIST / Artist
Bahar Oganer
Born in 1980, Bahar Oganer graduated from Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting Department in 2008. In 2010, she continued her painting studies at Cité International des Arts Paris, where she went with an İKSV scholarship, and had the opportunity to expand into different geographies such as America, Europe and the Middle East. The artist, who has held solo and group exhibitions in Istanbul, Izmir, New York, Berlin, London and many other cities, continues to work in Izmir with his wife, sculptor Ozan Oganer.
Working mostly with acrylics on large canvases, Oganer often produces compositions of figures with their backs to the viewer or with their faces covered. Oganer, who started working with self-portraits, still mentions that the figures in her paintings are herself and the scenes she handles are frames from her life or her own fictions. This way, she aims to draw the audience into that scene to be seen through the eyes of the artist. With references to the Pop Art movement, the artist mentions that there is a loneliness and sadness behind her works. Though she usually paints scenes that will give peace at first glance by using vivid colors, she also touches on the psychology of women in her works.
