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Press kit for Bent Rushmore, artist and musician out of Tallinn, Estonia. The artwork, logos and photographs below are free for editorial and promotional use. For interviews, extra material or anything else, write to hello@bentrushmore.com.

Bio

Short

Bent Rushmore is a self-taught artist and musician from Tallinn, Estonia. For close to two decades he has drawn strange, faintly grotesque faces into small black sketchbooks. In 2026 he started painting them wall-sized in black and white. Winner and nominee of exactly zero awards.

Long

Bent Rushmore has been drawing odd, faintly grotesque faces into small black sketchbooks since around 2008, one at a time, in cafés and kitchens and on beaches across Tallinn, Pärnu and Berlin. Most of them he gave away. Over the years the faces piled up into a body of work he calls the Rushmore Family, first shown by the artist Martin Saar in his Tallinn gallery in 2018. In 2026 the faces grew up. Bent began enlarging them into wall-sized acrylic paintings in black and white, keeping the raw hand-drawn line. Every piece is a one-off, made and signed by hand, never reprinted. He is also a musician: he grew up in Soviet-era Estonia DJing his father’s smuggled vinyl, co-founded the band Köömes in 2006, and early in 2026 wrote his first film score, for the Estonian short Idioot.

Artist statement

I started drawing faces around 2008, out of boredom, in ballpoint on whatever paper was nearest. The stranger they came out, the better. I drew them everywhere and mostly gave them away. Twenty years on, the same faces have grown up. I paint them wall-sized in black and white, keeping the raw hand-drawn line. They are meant to be a little unsettling, and to make you feel something. Every piece is a one-off, made by hand, no reprints.

Key facts

  • Name: Bent Rushmore
  • Based in Tallinn, Estonia
  • The work: the Rushmore Family, strange faces drawn and painted by hand
  • Drawings: black ballpoint pen on paper, in small sketchbooks
  • Paintings: acrylic on canvas, black and white, 40 × 60 cm and 80 × 120 cm
  • Every piece an original, hand-signed, never reprinted
  • First shown: Martin Saar’s gallery, Tallinn, 2018
  • Also a musician: the band Köömes since 2006, plus solo blues and electronic; first film score in 2026 for the short Idioot
  • Press contact: hello@bentrushmore.com
  • Online: instagram.com/rushmorefamily · bentrushmore.com

Bent Rushmore is an artist out of Tallinn, Estonia. For close to two decades he has drawn strange, slightly grotesque faces into little black sketchbooks, one face at a time. Together they became a body of work he calls the Rushmore Family, first shown by Martin Saar in 2018 and, in 2026, painted up to wall size on canvas in black and white. More on the work: the Rushmore Family.

Bent Rushmore painting in his studio
In the studio · Herkki-Erich MerilaHi-res ↓
Rushmore Family painting on canvas
Rushmore Family · canvas, 2026Hi-res ↓
Rushmore Family painting on canvas
Rushmore Family · canvas, 2026Hi-res ↓
Rushmore Family painting on canvas
Rushmore Family · canvas, 2026Hi-res ↓
Rushmore Family painting on canvas
Rushmore Family · canvas, 2026Hi-res ↓

Logos

The Bent Rushmore wordmark and mark, as scalable SVG for print and screen. Please don’t recolour, stretch or otherwise alter them.

Get in touch

Bent Rushmore, Tallinn, Estonia. Press and interviews: hello@bentrushmore.com. Happy to supply more photographs, higher resolutions or anything else a piece might need.

Find Bent online