Bresler Resident: Murat Cem Mengüç

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. 

About the Fleur and Charles Bresler Residency: In honor of VisArts patrons, Fleur and Charles Bresler, VisArts invites applications and proposals from local, national, and international artists for a four month residency at VisArts at Rockville. This residency provides a unique opportunity for a dynamic individual artist or collaborative artist team to create a new body of work, evolve an existing body of work, or develop a project in a stimulating, supportive environment. Studio space is provided free of charge. The residency encourages interaction, dialogue and exploration both within the VisArts artist community and the larger Rockville community as well. The residency offers the gift of time and space to three artists and/or collaborative artist teams each year to experiment and realize new work. The current Bresler Resident Artists present their work in a solo exhibition at VisArts.

Learn more about the Fleur And Charles Bresler Residency.