Kerem Ozan Bayraktar is an Istanbul-based artist working with site-specific installations, digital imagery, and field research. He examines actual and imaginary environments shaped by congestion, accumulation, and suspension. In his works, fragments of life, overlooked infrastructures, taxonomies, and diagrams come together in states of instability, absurdity, and fragility.
He participated in several art and research programs, including Fellowship for Situated Practice (basis voor actuele kunst, 2022, the Netherlands) and the Berlin Senate Residency Program (Zentrum fur Kunst und Urbanistik, 2021, Germany). His work has recently been featured in the Tokyo Biennale (2023, Japan), Non-/Human Assemblages (2021, South Korea), Sentient Matter (2021, D21, Germany), and Timeless Curiosities (2024, Istanbul Modern, Turkey). Bayraktar received his MFA and DFA degrees from Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting department. He is currently a faculty member at Sabanci University. His recent publications include Marmara (2023), Spirits on the Ground (2021) and Dunyalarin Haritalari [Maps of Worlds] (2021).