Academic

2027
Ottoman Impressionists Upcoming
In Impressionism / Imperium (eds. Clark, Fowle, Kelly), Yale University Press
2027
1986 — Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin Upcoming
In Chronicle of the 1980s, American University in Cairo Press. Editorial committee member and contributor
2026
A Syncretic Modernism: The Turkish Striving for a Painterly Synthesis Upcoming
In The Cambridge History of Middle Eastern Modernism, Cambridge University Press
2022
A Syncretic Modernism: Articulations of Painting in Turkey (1910s–1940s)
Doctoral dissertation, MIT. Revised book manuscript in progress
2019
Exorcising the Soviet: Contemporary Artistic Practice in Armenia
Review of Angela Harutyunyan, The Political Aesthetics of the Armenian Avant-Garde. Art Journal 78, no. 1
2018
Another Kind of Muralnomad: Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu’s Mosaic Wall from the Turkish Pavilion at Expo ’58
Thresholds, no. 46, MIT Press. Read (PDF)
2014
On İsmail Saray and Leonardo da Vinci
ARTMargins, vol. 3, no. 3, MIT Press. Introduction (PDF) · Saray’s text, translated (PDF)

Courses taught

2025–26
Site and Scale Seminar
Teaching Artist Fellowship Program, Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi
2024
Curatorial Practice
New York University Abu Dhabi (Fall)
2022–23
Contemporary Art and its Institutions · Masterworks of Modern Art · Post-1945 American Art
Sabancı University, Istanbul

Guest lectures

2025
Who’s a Curator?
For South Asian Art (S. Kulshreshtha), NYU Abu Dhabi
2024
Curating?
Proseminar in Curatorial Practice (L. Fresko), CCS Bard
2024
Silence in Museums
For Silence (Ö. Özhabeş), NYU Abu Dhabi
2023–25
Modern and Contemporary Art from Turkey
For Contemporary Art and Politics in the Arab World (T. Sherwell), NYU Abu Dhabi

Fellowships & grants

2021
MIT HTC Covid Fellowship
2020
Aga Khan Summer Fellowship, MIT School of Architecture
2018–19
Kress Dissertation Fellowship, Harvard University Center for European Studies
2018
France-Belgium Summer Research Grant, MIT
2017
Summer Study Grant, MIT Center for International Studies
2016
The Avalon Travel Grant, MIT School of Architecture

Prizes

2016
Ilona Karmel Writing Awards — Second Place, Vera List Prize for Visual Arts, MIT

2023–
Visiting critic, MFA in Art and Media program, NYUAD
2017
Co-organized Agendas: Politics of Production and Politics of the Image, MIT School of Architecture
2015–17
Recurring visiting critic, MIT Art, Culture & Technology program
2017
Visiting critic, Yale School of Architecture Advanced Studio