Doğu Özgün (1988) completed his undergraduate (2011), master's degree (2016) and proficiency in art (2021) programs at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. He studied his master's degree program on the relationship between spatial techniques and artistic content in painting. He completed his qualification in art with a thesis he wrote on the criticism of speciesism in art history. Doğu Özgün creates paintings, collages, engravings, installations, video andsculptures. He creates intimate but uncanny scenes where compassion, satire and

criticism are observed simultaneously. It focuses on the audience's perception of

trust. He comes to terms with the pain of being human among species and thinks about gender, race and family issues. It focuses on the desire to leave behind idealized, sanitized and monumentalized hierarchical ideas and teachings and to heal the wounds inflicted by these oppressive teachings. In Özgün's art, images that we know, are familiar with, have memories and trigger our memories communicate with the viewer, and this closeness makes the viewer's safe distance fragile.