Melike Konur

Melike Vivastine Konur, an Afro-Turk multidisciplinary visual artist, uses performance as her foundation, building bridges
between Pittsburgh and Istanbul. Her practice explores erasure in diasporic migration and restores belonging through the lens of motherhood, using song, dance, installation, and writing to build living archives of matriarchal knowledge.

Konur approaches voice and the body as sites of memory, transmission, and resistance. Her recent solo exhibition Women I’ve Been (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 2025) translated a lifetime of performance into an immersive installation integrating film, sculpture, and sound.

Konur’s vision is shared across her work as an artist and as an arts leader. She currently serves as Director of Advancement at Kelly Strayhorn Theater bringing insight from working within global cultures to resource and systems design for artistry with care as infrastructure.