Bio
Leila Seyedzadeh is an interdisciplinary Iranian artist based in New York. Her practice explores the intersection of memory, landscape, and displacement, weaving together fragments of recollection into intricate, abstract terrains. Drawing from natural elements such as mountains and rivers—symbols deeply embedded in collective and personal memory—her work navigates the tension between familiarity and estrangement. Through this process, she constructs landscapes that evoke a sense of placelessness, where the act of reconstruction simultaneously erodes and reshapes meaning.
Seyedzadeh holds an MFA in Painting & Printmaking from the Yale School of Art (2019) and a BFA in Painting from Tehran’s University of Science and Culture (2014). She is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant (2024), H. Lee Hirsche Prize (2019), and Soma Summer Scholarship at the Yale School of Art (2018). Her work has been featured in Canvas, ArteEast, Tique, No NIIN, Art Apart of cult(ure), Art Spiel, and the Museum of Non-Visible Art.
Her current solo exhibition, “Under the Sky, Above the Sea”, is on view at the Visual Art Center of New Jersey through May 18, 2025. Previous solo exhibitions include shows at Peter Gaugy Gallery (Austria) and Dastan Gallery (Iran). She has also participated in major group exhibitions, including the Immigrant Artist Biennial, Arsenal Contemporary Art, Ford Foundation, Untitled Art Fair, and Dubai Art Fair.