^{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 gesture 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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