He raced in the 2005 GP2 Series for the iSport team and was the 2001 US Barber Formula Dodge champion.

Artam's career begun in karting in 1999, and he moved up to the Turkish Touring Car Championship in 2001.

On 29 May 2004 Can Artam got his shot in Formula 3000 in Imola as the first Turkish driver racing in this category, driving part of the season for the Coloni team,[1] and later driving some races for Super Nova.

[2] In 2005, he drove in GP2, the replacement series for F3000, for the iSport International team alongside Scott Speed, although without much success, scoring just two points with seventh place at the Monaco round of the inaugural GP2 championship.

In 2013 he started racing again in the Turkish Touring Car Championship with Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport.