May Parlar is an Istanbul born, Berlin & NYC based visual artist whose work encompasses performance, installation, photography and time-based media. She creates performance-based images that playfully explore the human condition within constructed realities.

The sense of self, love, loss, grief, temporalities of being and non/belonging are recurrent themes in her work, which has been published and exhibited internationally.

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Parlar has been awarded multiple fellowships and artist residencies, including those at Vermont Studio Center in VA, McColl Center in NC, Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency in CA, and Hangar Arts & Research Center in Barcelona, Spain. She was shortlisted for 2019 Aesthetica Art Prize in the UK, and is selected as one of the 2024-25

'Hot Picks' by Smack Mellon Foundation in NYC.​​​ 

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Apart from her visual art practice, she is a writer, documentary filmmaker, and lecturer of art & design at different institutions.

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​​For inquiries: parlar.may@gmail.com

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