Education
2019 MFA Painting and Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, CT
2014 BA Painting, The University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran
Awards
2025 Visual Arts Grant, Brooklyn Art Council, New York
2024 Foundation For Contemporary Arts Grant, New York
2019 H. Lee Hirsche Dean’s Merit Prize, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2018 SOMA Summer Fellowship, Mexico City
2013 The 7th annual “New Generation of Painters in Iran” Shirin Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Residencies
2025 NYFA Artist as Entrepreneur, Powerhouse Arts, New York
2024 Here & There Collective, THAT Studio Residency, New York
2020 Nars Foundation, New York
. NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, New York
2018 SOMA Summer, Mexico City, Mexico
. CCAM Graduate Fellow, Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, Yale University, CT
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Under the Sky, Above the Sea, Visual Art Center, New Jersey
2022 Under the Same Sky, 99 Scott, New York
2022 Hoch Wie Nie: Imaginary Landscapes and the Creatures Who Live There, Peter Gaugy Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2020 An Absent View, The Border Project Space, New York
2017 Suspended Mountain, Dastan Gallery, Electric Room, Tehran, Iran
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 It Must Be Nice To Fall in Love, Tempest Gallery, New York
. Cat’s Cradle, Tempest Gallery, New York
2024 Mend and Contain, Untitled Art Fair, Transmitter Gallery, Miami
. Who Is Weaving the Sky’s Nest, Yeo Workshop, Singapore
2023 Enmeshed, Dreams of Water, Immigrant Artist Biennial, New York
. Conjuring Flames, Arsenal Contemporary Art, New York
. 4.5 Billion Years, Brief Histories, New York
2022 Vector, Heaven Gallery, Chicago
. Naked Lunch, Spring Break Art Show, New York
2021 Our Tears are Sweet, Our Laughter Venomous, Eastern Art Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University
. A Discourse of Accord, Transmitter Gallery, New York
.The Invincible Beings, FPC Gallery, New York
2020 Memories, tales, and folk songs, High Line Nine Gallery, New York
. In/Between, The Ford Foundation Gallery, New York
2019 Le Gymnasium Sacre, Art Dubai, Dastan Gallery, Dubai, UAE
. Subversive Stitch, WhiteBox, New York
2018 Words Cannot Express, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
. Paperweight biennale, Mexico City, Mexico
2017 You Can Get In And Not Do Anything, Green Hall Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2016 Agog, Dastan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2013 The 7th annual “New Generation of Painters in Iran” Ahvaz Contemporary Art Museum, Iran
. The 7th annual “New Generation of Painters in Iran” Shirin Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Artist Talks & Panels
2025 Panelist Cultural Development Fund (CDF), NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
. Speaker Art in Dialogue, Conversations with Today’s Artists, Bidar School, Tehran, Iran
. Speaker Life After Yale Panel, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
. Panelist BAF Multidisciplinary Panel, Brooklyn Arts Council, New York
2024 Panelist Performing Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council, New York
2023 Speaker Enmeshed, Dreams of Water, Immigrant Artist Biennial, New York
2021 Speaker Criticism & Value, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2020 Speaker In Between the Shadows of the Sky, Space without Walls, Gent, Belgium
Selected Bibliographies
https://hyperallergic.com/1052546/a-textile-show-tempest-gallery-ruptures-cascades-bleeds/
https://impulsemagazine.com/symposium/face-to-face-september-2025
https://gritdaily.com/immigrant-artist-biennials-leila-seyedzadeh/
https://canvasonline.com/precious-territory-brief-histories-group-show/
https://no-niin.com/issue-15/weaving-connections-in-the-flow-a-conversation-with-leila-seyedzadeh/
https://artspiel.org/the-sky-is-higher-here-at-transmitter/?
https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/leila-seyedzadeh/