Özgür Kar was born in Ankara and lives and works in Amsterdam where he graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academie and was a resident at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. Recent solo exhibitions include: At the end of the day, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2022); STORAGE DRAMA, Emalin, London (2021); MACABRE, Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna (2021); A Decade of Submission, Édouard Montassut, Paris (2020); and A New Start, UKS, Oslo (2019). Recent group exhibitions include: 16th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art (2022); Fata Morgana, Jeu de Paume, Paris (2022); Anticorps, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2020); and Cruising Pavilion, 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (2018). Kar is the winner of the thirteenth Volkskrant Visual Arts Prize 2020.