ESRA KARADUMAN (1976 – İstanbul, TR) after graduated from Traditional Arts at Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, accepted a special invitation to complete her master's degree in Renaissance Studies at Harvard University in Florence, where she studied Western Renaissance visual art techniques. Despite concentrating on miniature art during her study, Esra Karaduman produces distinctive hybrid works by fusing the technical skills she appropriated from miniature with the vocabulary of contemporary art. The artist, who both feeds on and transforms the miniature, uses the miniaturetechnique to make a reference to her own personal history as well as eastern art history. However, the direct, almost documentary form of expression of the miniature does not meet the flexibility and expression style that the artist desires. The artist;If the act of remembering is a redefinition, then I would rather write a new story by travelling through my own memories than stumbling through an unidentified time period trying to recreate the past. "I try to get rid of the clear meanings of the miniature and explain remembering with metaphors, with the idea that "pictures persist," instead of drawing the events verbatim," she says in self-expression. Thus, by divorcing the art of miniature from its traditional status as a book art, Karaduman creates a new language of expression and generates hybrid works that move between the aesthetic languages of contemporary art and miniature. The artist creates works that centre on nature and the female body by tackling themes like memory and remembering, states of femininity, the relationship between women and nature, and the spaces between fiction and reality.

Her works are primarily based on her own life story.