Artist Statement/ Biography

Seyedzadeh’s landscape paintings and drawings represent concepts such as placelessness and nomadic identity. The work embodies her own recollections of various landscapes in Iran while residing in the landscape of the United States; Carrying her memories of the former in the latter; Dwelling in-between two worlds, one present and the other absent entails uprooting and displacement. Her landscape paintings evolved into an ongoing series of suspended installations comprised of large hand-dyed fabrics, ropes and structures in the form of mountains. Seyedzadeh’s aim is to construct a landscape in a contained physical space, where the audience feels the shifting environment. Using space as material, the connection between human and land is woven through the fibers of both textiles and imagined landscapes.

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Leila Seyedzadeh was born in 1986 Tehran, lives and works in New York. She received a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from The University of Science and Culture in 2014 and an MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2019. Seyedzadeh was a recipient of the H.Lee Hirsche prize at Yale School of Art. She Participated at Soma Summer in 2018 in Mexico City and NYFA IAM 2020 in New York. Seyedzadeh’s work addresses imaginary landscapes and focuses on natural subjects such as mountains that are extracted from subconscious. It is as if she is attaching together pieces of her memories, and by doing so she is destroying their meaning, and thus creating a landscape that is immersed in placelessness.