Ozer Toraman

Ozer Toraman (b.1989), a Berlin and London-based artist, creates figurative paintings that tell stories of urban life, the body, human identity and gender. New paintings that represent personal avatars, couplings, and everyday social exchanges inspired by urban life. Together, they articulate limitless capacity to represent imagined states, memories, aspirations, and emotions. Toraman is presenting oil paintings portraying people in nature in different cities: Berlin, Istanbul, Lisbon, Thailand City and New Mexico. All compositions are based on Toraman’s personal travel photographs. People in this series are his friends, family and colleagues that surrounds him and Toraman’s bold simplicity and heightened colours place the viewer between fantasy and reality.