Mehves Lelic

Head of Exhibitions and Public Programming, the MET Commons

Mehves Lelic is an Istanbul-born curator, educator, artist, and cultural worker. She was most recently the Assistant Professor of Fine Arts 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 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 Jason Patterson: An Early Career Survey; Spatial Reckoning: Morandi, Picasso, and Villon; Laura Letinsky: No More Than It Should Be; Marty Two Bulls, Jr.: Dominion; In Praise of Shadows: Jun'ichiro Tanizaki and Darkness as Device in Modern and Contemporary Art; Fickle Mirror: Dialogues in Self-Portraiture; Jackie Milad: Vestige; Norma Morgan: Enchanted World; The Movable Image: Video Art by Collis/Donadio, Shala Miller, and Rachel Schmidt. She has been awarded the ArtTable Faith Flanagan Fellowship, the Art Bridges Learning and Engagement Grant, a National Geographic Expeditions Council Fellowship, the City of Chicago Individual Artists’ Award, the Turkish Cultural Foundation Cultural Exchange Fellowship, and the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) Conference Fellowship. 

Headshot of Mehves Lelic; woman with mid-length brown hair, wearing a white shirt
Headshot of Mehves Lelic; woman with mid-length brown hair, wearing a white shirt