Aykan Umut is a Belgian visual artist born in 1975 in Ghent. Originally trained as a craft animation artist, he developed into an established digital production and artwork creator with a strong, distinctive vision in image-making. Over the past decade, his creative touch has reached numerous street culture and music-infused brands and collaborators, including Glenfiddich, Moncler Genius, and Swizz Beatz. His work has been exhibited at Moncler Genius Olympia show in London and in solo exhibitions in Brussels, Antwerp, and Ghent. Recent innovations in artificial intelligence opened up new possibilities for Umut, challenging him to push his autonomous artistic practice further. Using AI tools as an executive assistant for his creative process, he brings to life visual concepts too complex to stage in the physical world: images long living in his imagination, now realised through generative tools. Rooted in music and street culture, his current work weaves personal mixed-reality narratives. Characters marked by a penetrating gaze draw the audience in, in almost hypnotic ways, into a fictional world where time stands still.
BRANDSGlenfiddich, Manhattn’s Burgers, Moncler, JBC, ZEB, Asap Rocky, Swizz Beatz, Mauro Pawlowski
