Leyla Jamil Rzayeva


Leyla Rzayeva is a first generation American artist born to Azerbaijani and Russian parents. She draws on theatrical production to create sculptural props and photographic sequences to test visibility and self-possession working across photography, sculpture and printmaking. Leyla is a Graduate Teaching Associate at San Francisco State University and artist residency manager at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA. She has exhibited at Art/Space114 (LA), Minnesota Street Project, Berkeley Art Center, Root Division, the de Young Museum, Skyline College, and 500 Capp Street Spring Invitational; and participated in the Summer Workshop at the Enrique Martinez Celaya Studio (LA).




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