Candan İşcan

She was born in 1987 in Ankara. She had her B.A and M.F.A (Media& Design) degree from İ.D. Bilkent University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Graphic Design. She spent her junior year (2008-2009) as an exchange student at The University of Michigan, School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor MI, USA.
She moved to Istanbul in 2013. She worked as an art director at Ntv Tarih and #tarih magazines. She also worked with several clients from publishing and entertainment industry.

She attended The Mamut Art Project Exhibition in 2015, with her large-scale pencil drawings. In the years that followed, she participated in several group exhibitions and did her solo show in İstanbul. She continues her art studies at her studio in Kadıköy. She still works as a freelance graphic designer.

Her work pivots on images of the natural world and anatomy which can be accepted as products of analytic and rational ideology. She approaches those images with artistic sense and offers a new way of perception. She entrelaces, deconstructs, replaces and mixes images that belong to body/inner and natural world/outer. She cuts them loose from a rational world, reinterprets them and presents a bizarre nature.