Leila Moosavi, born in Tehran in 1989, grew up in a family of prominent artists,

activists and political personalities. Her mother, Feeroozeh Golmohammadi, a

renowned Iranian artist introduced her to drawing and various painting mediums at

a very young age. By the time Leila was 14, she started her own art classes for

children. She went on to study graphic design in high school and college.Leila Moosavi graduated in 2012 and has since remained involved in conducting

drawing and painting workshops and art therapy programs for children and adults

and has translated a number of books on art. As a social activist, she has also

published more than 15 articles on art, culture and social problems in a number of

Iranian newspapers and magazines. Leila’s passion for coffee inspired her to write

and illustrate a book published in 2018 under the name, Qahveh Chist (What is

Coffee?). This is the first ever Persian-language book written about coffee in Iran.

In 2018, Leila enrolled in a master’s program in painting at the Poznan University of

Arts in Poland. She studied under teachers like Jaroslaw Kozlowski, Anna Goebel,

Dominik Lejman, Jerzy Hejnowicz, Mikola Polinski, Diana Fiedler, Ewa Kulesza and

others and strived to gain a conceptual understanding of art and its function in that

period.

Leila’s practical project for the master’s degree was inspired by a bitter catastrophe

that occurred in Iran in January 2020. A Ukraine Airlines plane was shot

down by Iranian forces killing all on board. The situation called for a creative mode

through which a tragedy of such magnitude could be shared effectively and

constructively. For this purpose, Leila used black and white pen drawings in the old

Iranian lithographic style and interspersed attractive ancient symbols and

mythological figures into the unpleasant story of the incident to engage her viewers

and convey a bitter message in a balanced manner.

Leila was part of a young group of artists evolving together and displaying their art

processes via exhibitions. Her early exhibitions focused on technical skills but

gradually became more conceptual and tried to find deeper meaning and purpose in

art. Leila has held 16 exhibitions in different countries (see portfolio) and has won

the first prize in the Shankar International Painting Contest in New Delhi, India, in

2000. She has curated more than 30 exhibitions in Iran and abroad and designed 20

graphics collections like posters and brochures for exhibitions.

Currently she is studying MFA in Glass and Design in Wroclaw Academy of Art.