Bio
Leila Seyedzadeh, b 1986 Tehran, is an Iranian interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Seyedzadeh addresses ideas of imaginary landscapes, focusing on natural subjects such as mountains extracted from the subconscious. Her works function as tapestries made from pieces of unraveled memories that have lost their original meaning to give life to a landscape of placelessness. It is as if she is attaching pieces of her memories, and by doing so, she is destroying their meaning, thus creating a landscape immersed in placelessness.
Seyedzadeh holds an MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Yale School of Art in 2019 and a BFA in Painting from Tehran’s University of Science and Culture in 2014. She received the H. Lee Hirsche Prize in 2019 and the Soma Summer artist residency scholarship at Yale School of Art in 2018. Her works have been featured in Canvas, ArteEast, New Orleans Review, No NIIN, art apart of cult(ure), Art Spiel, and the Museum of Non-visible Art. Seyedzadeh's solo and two-person exhibitions include shows at Peter Gaugy Gallery and Dastan Gallery and select group exhibitions: Immigrant Artist Biennial, Arsenal Contemporary Art, Brief Histories, Spring Break Art Fair, and Dubai Art Fair.