CV

Leila Seyedzadeh

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 - Brooklyn Art Funds, Brooklyn Art Council, New York

2024 - Foundation For Contemporary Arts Grant, New York

2019 - H. Lee Hirsche 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

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, two-person show, 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 - 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

Artist Talks & Panels

2025 - 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

- Speaker - Shifting Sands, ChaShaMa, New York

2020 - Speaker - In Between the Shadows of the Sky, Space without Walls, Gent, Belgium

Selected Bibliographies

https://tique.art/features/leila-seyedzadeh/

https://gritdaily.com/immigrant-artist-biennials-leila-seyedzadeh/

https://cultbytes.com/water-bound-semiotics/

https://canvasonline.com/precious-territory-brief-histories-group-show/

https://www.neworleansreview.org/the-blue-sky/

https://no-niin.com/issue-15/weaving-connections-in-the-flow-a-conversation-with-leila-seyedzadeh/

https://arteeast.org/programs/leila-seyedzadeh/

https://www.artapartofculture.net/2022/08/17/leila-seyedzadeh-tessere-in-connesione-report-mostra-una-poesia-e-intervista-con-lartista/

https://artspiel.org/the-sky-is-higher-here-at-transmitter/?

https://antemag.com/2022/03/11/a-meditation-on-vastness-the-sky-is-higher-here-at-transmitter-gallery/

https://artspiel.org/shifting-sands-at-chashama/

https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/leila-seyedzadeh/

https://dastan.gallery/video/7/