Artist Name: Rehan Miskci
Residency Dates: March – May 2026
Born: 1986
Hometown: Istanbul, Turkey
Lives & Works: Brooklyn & Manhattan, NY
URL: http://www.rehanmiskci.com | Instagram @rehanmiskci
Education:
2019 – Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, ME
2014 – School of Visual Arts, MFA Photography Video and Related Media, NY
2010 – Istanbul Technical University, Interior Architecture, Istanbul, TR
Bio/Statement:
Rehan Miskci is one of the selected artists for the 2026 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program.
Rehan Miskci is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her practice weaves together layers of archive, photography, and text to reimagine traces lodged within both individual and collective memory. Miskci’s work forges permeable connections across different temporalities, proposing conceptual terrains shaped by unseen encounters, potential affinities, and the overlapping surfaces of narratives.
Given her background as an Istanbulite Armenian, she has always been familiar with notions of historical conflict, displacement and erosion of cultural identity. Therefore her practice forms an area between two and three dimensional reinterpretation of various photographic archives, whether it’s personal albums or materials from the public sphere. She’s interested in how they are being treated physically and re-contextualized through the juxtaposition of personal and collective memory.
Formally, she constructs pieces through layering, often combining photographic prints, screen prints, and fragments of text. These materials overlap, obscure, or bleed into one another, creating visual sediment that mirrors the instability of memory.
She treats the archive not as a fixed repository but as something porous and negotiable. Her installations propose that the physical manipulation of photographic forms—layering, reprinting, reframing—is a way to imagine alternative futures for the histories that have been only partially recorded.
Miskci holds an undergraduate degree in Interior Architecture from Istanbul Technical University and an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She is the first place winner of Baxter Street Camera Club of New York’s Annual Competition (2015). Her work has been exhibited in venues including Bronx Museum of the Arts, Transmitter Gallery, in New York; Arter Museum and Depo, in Istanbul. Miskci is an alumna of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2019) and she is the recipient of the Bronx Museum’s Artist in the Marketplace Fellowship (2019). Miskci was also awarded a NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Fellowship in Photography (2019). She was supported by IKSV (Istanbul Culture and Arts Foundation) to complete a residency at Cité des Arts in Paris, France.
The 2026 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
