Birth: İstanbul, 1988

Dak graduated from Istanbul Avni Akyol Anatolian Fine Arts High School Painting Department in 2009 and continued his art education at Mimar Sinan University Painting Department.  Participated in First Screenings (2013), Signs of Time Outside / Dream (2014), Head to the World on the Balcony (2015), Celebration and Memories (2015), Journey to Myself (2015), Illustration (2016), If you don’t have another plan (2019).  He took part in Contemporary Istanbul in 2014 with Signs of the Time.  His works met with the audience in the 1st and 2nd editions of the Open Exhibition held in the Open Space with 40 Meters, 4 Walls, 8 Cubes, one of the parallel events that took place within the scope of the 14th Istanbul Biennial.

Burak Dak constructs the metaphorical discourse in his works on the combination of many images to create a new form. While the symbols used by the artist based on myths and folklore are transformed into amorphous bodies, they are inspired by half-human, half-animal mythological characters.  Dak uses pencil, acrylic, gouache, soft pastel, and dry paint on paper in his paintings, which are about the spirituality that people who cannot face their past and their own reality are the main obstacles in their search for a solution.  There are surreal decors in the background of the artist's composition.

Two-Headed Ibex

Watercolor, soft pastel, colored pencil and p...

The Lively Archer

Watercolor, soft pastel, colored pencil, penc...

Rabbit Man

Watercolor, soft pastel, colored pencil and p...

The Man Holding a Needle

Watercolor, soft pastel, colored pencil and p...

Mouse Man

Watercolor, soft pastel, colored pencil and p...

The Monkey Man

Soft pastel, pencil and colored pencil on pap...

The Smiling Man

Soft pastel, pencil and colored pencil on pap...

The Leopard Kid

Soft pastel, pencil and colored pencil on pap...

The Girl Holding a Pencil

Soft pastel, pencil, colored pencil and paste...

The Man Holding a Sword

Soft pastel, pencil and colored pencil on pap...

The Fly's Will

Soft pastel, gouache and pencil on paper

Proportion

Soft pastel, gouache and pencil on paper

Sun

Soft pastel, gouache and pencil on paper

Persona

Gouache, soft pastel, colored pencil and penc...

Kaiser

Colored pencil and pencil on paper, 35 x 25 c...

BENEDICTION

Gouache, colored pencil and pencil on paper, ...

PUERPERANT

Gouache, colored pencil and pencil on paper, ...

EDUCATION

Gouache, colored pencil and pencil on paper, ...

Undefined A (Male) and Undefined B (Female)

Soft pastel, gouache, pencil, colored pencil ...

Night Owls

Watercolor, soft pastel, colored pencil and p...

Rotten

Watercolor, soft pastel, colored pencil and p...

Count the Cut Fin

colored pencil and pencil on paper; 35x18cm

Little Prince

colored pencil and pencil on paper; 35x25cm

Salt

gouache, colored pencil, pencil on paper; 35x...

Ventouse

Kağıt üzerine karakalem 35 x 25 cm

Alligator

Pencil, gouache, and colored pencil on paper ...

Lord of the Testicle

Pencil, and gouache on paper 35 x 25 cm

Terror Bird

Pencil, gouache, and colored pencil on paper ...

Turban

Pencil, gouache, soft pastel and colored penc...

Pan

Pencil, gouache, and colored pencil on paper ...

Maymunkeş

Pencil, gouache, and colored pencil on paper ...

Beer Bottles in the Tulip Garden

Pencil, gouache, and colored pencil on paper ...

Queen of Colony

Pencil, gouache, and colored pencil on paper ...

Gripper Head

Pencil, gouache, and colored pencil on paper ...

Blackfly Stew

Pencil, gouache, and colored pencil on paper ...

Clipped Wing

Pencil, gouache, and colored pencil on paper ...

Afreet

Pencil, gouache, and colored pencil on paper

Meat Market

Pencil, gouache, and colored pencil on paper ...

Dessert

Pencil on paper 35 x 25 cm

Chick

Pencil, gouache, and colored pencil on paper ...

Red Man

Pencil, gouache, and colored pencil on paper ...

Dino

Pencil, gouache, and colored pencil on paper ...

Severed Horse Head

Pencil on paper 35 x 25 cm

Derby in June 1913

Pencil, gouache, and colored pencil on paper;...

Empires Graveyard

Pencil, gouache, soft pastel and colored penc...

"Invasion of Turtles

Pencil, acrylic, gouache, soft pastel and col...

Tarboosh

Pencil, acrylic, gouache, soft pastel and col...

My Boring Vassals

Pencil, acrylic, gouache, soft pastel and col...

The Bloodline of Ethics

Pencil, acrylic, gouache, soft pastel, and co...

Ottoman Armorer

Pencil, acrylic, gouache, soft pastel and col...

Kranos

Pencil, acrylic, gouache, soft pastel and col...

Incubation

Pencil, acrylic, gouache, soft pastel and col...

Penalty Chair

Pencil, acrylic, gouache, soft pastel and col...

Parasite

Pencil, acrylic, gouache, soft pastel and col...

Sofa

Pencil, acrylic, gouache, soft pastel and col...

Leda and The Swan

Pencil, acrylic, gouache, soft pastel and col...

The Centaur's Daughter

Pencil, acrylic, gouache, soft pastel and col...