Temür Köran reconstructs reality through a distinctive pictorial language in his multilayered works, producing open-ended compositions that stimulate the viewer’s imagination. Rather than presenting an emotion, concept, living being, or object in its strict reality, the artist prefers to employ images that remain open to interpretation and acquire new meanings in the viewer’s mind. Attentive to the formal concerns of painting, Köran explores the relationship between form and color, often making use of bold and intense color contrasts. An artist who values experimentation and discovery in his practice, he developed primitive figure motifs—used as leitmotifs—from ready-made objects during the period immediately following his graduation from the academy. In the paintings produced during this time, he created hierarchical compositions inspired by Eastern art, resolving the pictorial surface through color. Later, when the human figure reappeared in his work, Köran developed the Diptychs series as a synthesis of his artistic explorations. Created through an experimental process in which two canvases are placed side by side and painted simultaneously with the same brushstrokes, the Diptychs series occupies an important place within the artist’s body of work. Before beginning a painting, Köran makes visual notes in the form of drawings that outline the elements to be included in the composition. Alongside his canvas paintings, he also produces drawings that combine different materials, adopting a multilayered and expressionistic pictorial approach.

Born in 1960 in Siverek, Temür Köran graduated from the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Mimar Sinan University, Devrim Erbil Studio, in 1986. In 1996, he received his proficiency in art from the Painting Department of the same university. His first solo exhibition was held at Yonca Modern Art Gallery in 1989. During the 1990s, he spent a period in the United States, continuing his work at his studio in Seattle.

Since 1997, Köran has worked with EVİN and has held twenty-three solo exhibitions at various galleries. Throughout his career, his works have been presented in numerous group exhibitions in Turkey and abroad. Between 1997 and 2019, he participated annually in the ARTİST Istanbul Art Fair organized by TÜYAP. In 2025, he took part in the exhibition Traces and Roots at the Riga Bourse Art Museum in Latvia. Köran’s works are included in many important private and institutional collections, as well as in the permanent collections of museums such as the Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum and Istanbul Modern. His first monograph was published by EVİN in 2001. He continues his practice in his studio in Istanbul.