Mehves Lelic is the Head of Exhibitions and Programs at the MET Commons and Lecturer in ACT. She is an Istanbul-born, Cambridge-based curator, artist, and educator. Previously, she served as Assistant Professor of Art and Art History and the Director of Mosely Gallery at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Head of the Curatorial Department at the Academy Art Museum. She holds an MFA from Bard College and a BA from the University of Chicago.
Lelic’s photographic work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Rotterdam Photo Festival, PhotoNOLA, Filter Photo Chicago, the Ogden Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art Baltimore, Cosmos Arles France, the Photographers’ Gallery Istanbul, and others. Her work has been published in the National Geographic, GEO Magazine, Ain’t Bad, Lenscratch, C41, Aesthetica and Der Greif. She has been awarded the National Geographic Expeditions Council Fellowship, the Turkish Cultural Foundation Cultural Exchange Fellowship, the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) Conference Fellowship, and the ArtTable Faith Flanagan Fellowship.
Lelic has curated and organized over 20 exhibitions, including Spatial Reckoning: Morandi, Picasso, and Villon (2023); Laura Letinsky: No More Than It Should Be (2023); Marty Two Bulls, Jr.: Dominion (2023); In Praise of Shadows: Jun’ichiro Tanizaki and Darkness and Device in Modern and Contemporary Art (2023); Fickle Mirror: Dialogues in Self-Portraiture (2022); Jackie Milad: Vestige (2022); Norma Morgan: Enchanted World (2022); The Movable Image: Video Art by Collis/Donadio, Shala Miller, and Rachel Schmidt (2022), and Hoesy Corona: Terrestrial Caravan (2022).