About

Aida Izadpanah is a New York–based contemporary artist whose interdisciplinary practice encompasses painting, porcelain, fiber, and sculpture. With a Ph.D. in Environmental Psychology, she explores the relationships between human experience, materiality, space, and the natural world. Her work is grounded in transformation and interconnectedness, bringing distinct materials, cultural histories, and craft traditions into dialogue. Porcelain — central to her practice for its paradoxical qualities of fragility and endurance — intersects with painting, hand-crocheted fiber, and sculptural processes to generate forms that evoke botanical, anatomical, geological, and imagined realms. Drawing from her Persian heritage and craft traditions, Izadpanah considers memory, resilience, belonging, and collective experience.

Biography

Aida Izadpanah lives and works in New York City, specializing in large-format mixed media and porcelain sculptural painting. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Psychology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a master’s degree in Urban Planning from Tehran University (Iran). She was a Teaching Assistant in mixed media at The Art Students League of New York (ASL) from 2012–14. Aida Izadpanah is professionally represented in the following states: New York, California, Colorado, Arizona, and Wyoming.

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

  • Emancipation, Stony Brook, New York, 2017
  • Transcendence, New York City, 2015
  • Revelation, Los Angeles, 2013

Group Exhibitions

  • Art Toronto Fair, Toronto, Canada, 2026
  • Awardee Exhibition, Ovissi Foundation, Reston, VA, 2026
  • Playful Oblivion, New York City, 2026
  • Art In General: Yve Yang Gallery, New York City, 2025
  • Transmutations: Intersections of Art & Experience, Jackson Hole, WY, 2024
  • Serenade of Sunlight: The Summer Exhibition, Jackson Hole, WY, 2024
  • Hamptons Fine Art Fair, Southampton, NY, 2024
  • Asia Now Art Fair, Paris, 2022
  • Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul, 2022
  • Self Reflection: Artists Self Portraits, New York City, 2020
  • Volta Art Fair, New York City, 2020
  • Summer Art Bash 2019: Iranian Contemporary Group Exhibition, Los Angeles, 2019
  • Material Culture, New York City, 2019
  • Art Brief IV: Iranian Contemporary, San Francisco, 2018
  • An Art + Design Collaboration: A Curated Selection of Iranian Contemporary Art, ADVOCARTSY and Ryan Saghian, Los Angeles, 2018
  • If So, What?, San Francisco, 2018
  • The Poetics of Diaspora: Iranian Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2017
  • States of Being in Abstract, New York City, 2016
  • Art Brief II: Iranian Contemporary North America, Santa Monica, 2016
  • ASL Grant Winners Exhibition, New York City, 2016
  • In the Abstract, Setauket, 2016
  • 73rd Annual Exhibition of Audubon Artists, Salmagundi Art Club, New York City, 2015
  • Global Perspective, Bridgehampton and Riverdale, 2015
  • 100th Annual Exhibition of the Allied Artists of America, National Arts Club, New York City, 2013
  • 71st Annual Exhibition of Audubon Artists, Salmagundi Art Club, New York City, 2013
  • Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery Red Dot Exhibition, New York City, 2013
  • Gramercy Neighborhood Associates Annual Arts Exhibit, National Arts Club, New York City, 2013
  • 99th Annual Exhibition of the Allied Artists of America, National Arts Club, New York City, 2012
  • 70th Annual Exhibition of Audubon Artists, Salmagundi Art Club, New York City, 2012 (award winner)
  • Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery Annual Exhibition, New York City, 2011

Distinctions & Awards

  • Inaugural Ovissi Foundation Award in Modern Craft: Ceramic, 2026
  • Shortlisted finalist, 2017 inaugural Behnam Bakhtiar Award, Côte d’Azur, France, 2017
  • Artist in Residence, Stony Brook University’s Undergraduate College in Arts, Culture, and Humanities, New York, 2017
  • Fantasy Fountain Fund painting fellowship, Paris, France, 2014
  • Cover story, Lines from the League magazine, 2014
  • Distinction and exhibition of Revelation 26, selected by the Chief Curator & Director of Collections of the National September 11 Memorial Museum, 2013
  • Jeffery Berman Director’s Award in Collage or Mixed Media, Audubon Artists, 2012