{"id":1379,"date":"2021-08-20T19:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T23:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/arts\/?page_id=1379"},"modified":"2025-07-29T12:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:17:56","slug":"mehves-lelic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/arts\/mehves-lelic\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehves Lelic, Assistant Professor & Director Mosely Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mehves Lelic<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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Lelic is an Istanbul-born artist, curator and educator based on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. In her work she ponders modernity and heritage, belonging, and the resulting relationship with the environment. She is an Assistant Professor of Art and Art History and the Director of Mosely Gallery at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. She holds an MFA from Bard College and a BA from the University of Chicago. Lelic\u2019s 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\u2019 Gallery Istanbul, and others. Her work has been published in the National Geographic, GEO Magazine, Ain\u2019t Bad, Lenscratch, C41, Aesthetica and Der Greif. She has been awarded the National Geographic Expeditions Council Grant, the City of Chicago Individual Artists\u2019 Award, the Turkish Cultural Foundation Cultural Exchange Fellowship, the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) Conference Fellowship, Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artists’ Grant, and the ArtTable Faith Flanagan Fellowship. Lelic previously served as Curator and the Head of the Curatorial Department at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland and 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\u2019ichiro Tanizaki and Modern and Contemporary Works (2023); Mary Cassatt: Labor and Leisure (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); Hoesy Corona: Terrestrial Caravan (2022); and On Water (2019). <\/p>\n\n\n

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