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 and 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 Visual Arts Grant of the Brooklyn Art Council (2025), the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant (2024), the H. Lee Hirsche Prize (2019), and the Soma Summer Scholarship at the Yale School of Art (2018). Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Canvas, Impulse Magazine, ArteEast, Tique, No NIIN, Art Apart of cult(ure), Art Spiel, and the Museum of Non-Visible Art.