Murat Cem Mengüç is a Turkish/American artist, writer and historian. He holds a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies and was an academic until 2017. Since then, he had two solo shows and participated in numerous group shows. Both his art work and writings appear in a number of websites, academic journals and edited volumes, including Hyperallergic, Maggot Brain, International Journal of Ottoman Studies and Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies. He is the founder of Studio Teleocene and the publisher of the Covid Magazine.