Cansu Sezer is a German-Turkish artist based in Zurich. Born in 1987 in Düsseldorf to Turkish immigrant parents, her creative journey has spanned from an incomplete arts university education to a completed design degree, culminating in a long career as Creative Director at one of the most creative agencies in the German-speaking region.

Since 2023, she has returned to painting with renewed intensity.

Sezer's works delve into the existential emotions of the human experience, often reflecting feelings of dislocation and the search for identity in an increasingly complex world. For her, painting serves as both an escape and an expression of freedom.

Her art is characterized by complex color transitions and richly layered compositions that emerge from an uncontrolled, intuitive painting process. Her rapid, expressive brushstrokes develop and transform on the canvas into dynamic, emotionally charged realms of color. This dynamism is a central aspect of her art, embodying a deep personal engagement with the canvas, through which she explores the various layers of conflicting emotions.

Cansu Sezer’s works are profound interpretations of the organic and natural ambivalence of human emotions in a complex, globalized world. Her art brings the essential energies of freedom, loss, and transformation into a continuous dialogue, vividly expressed through color, texture, and form.