Leila Khalilzadeh's art focuses on her perception and experience as an Iranian American Muslim woman. She was born and raised in Tehran, Iran. She received her associate degree in Liberal Arts and Science at San Diego Mesa College in 2017 and continued at the University of California, where she got her bachelor’s in Visual Arts (Studio) in 2019. Leila is currently a Master of Fine Art candidate at San Diego State University. Her practice addresses the subjects of gender issues, cultural identity, and psychological issues. She uses memory as a material and identity as a construction. Her role as a woman who experienced the difficulty of life in the Middle East allows her to create contemporary work that responds to political events, cultural and religious discourse. The concept of her work is the inner tensions that women experience within themselves, where tensions arise due to several social factors, including censorship regarding religious and political issues. Khalilzadeh experiments with various materials and methods to convey concepts.
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