Uğur Daştan was born in Istanbul in 1991. In 2009, he enrolled in the Chemistry department at Hacettepe University, and in 2015, he entered the Painting department at Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts. He is currently pursuing a thesis-based master's program in the Painting department at Marmara University Institute of Fine Arts, which he started in 2019.
Focusing on the concept of nature in his works, Uğur Daştan deals with nature on the basis of human perception and explores the limits of compositions that can emerge in this direction. In these artworks, which he produces with acrylic paint on paper, the artist uses colors in a lightness that can be considered almost transparent. It focuses on the relationship between the stain and the background. These artworks, which open up a free interpretation space to the viewer, do not lean on symbols or stories; appeals to the vast insight of the imagination.