Alieh is an Iranian-born artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Working across fiber sculpture, installation, and drawing, she explores bodily experience, displacement, and care through abstract and figurative forms.
Education
2022 MFA in Intermedia + Digital Art, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
2017 MA in Animation, Tehran University of Art
2013 BFA in Digital Arts, Shiraz Art Institute of Higher Education
Solo Exhibitions
2026 Rostangâh, Minnesota Street Project Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2025 The Omni-Gripper, Surel’s Place, Boise, ID
2023 Fort-Da, Pond Farm Pottery, Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve, CA
Artist Residencies
2027 Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, September
2027 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2027 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2026 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2026 Minnesota Street Project Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2025 Surel’s Place, Boise, ID
2023 Pond Farm Pottery, CA
Fellowships and Assistantships
2027 Wassaic Project Fellowship
2027 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship
2027 Anderson Ranch Arts Center Fellowship
2026 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship
2026 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Assistantship
2024 Julia Terr Fellowship
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Introductions, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2026 The Art of the Game, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
2026 Aknoon at Makaan, Minnesota Street Project Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2025 Super Hunger, WORK/San Jose, San Jose, CA
2025 Mapping Time, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2025 55th Annual Textile Exhibition, Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA
2025 Uhuru: Black History, Mohr Gallery, Mountain View, CA
2024 Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse, The CAMP Gallery, MI
2024 Homescape Borderland, Art Center of Rochester, Rochester, NY
2023 Who Are You?, genARTS Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA
2022 Extimacy, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, MD
2022 The Tongue in the Landscape, performance and installation, Joseph Beuys Sculpture Park, MD
2021 Spark, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
2020 Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD
2020 The Extended Body—Mixing Cultures, ITSLIQUID Group, London, UK
Awards and Grants
2026 San Francisco Open Studios Equity Grant
2026 Center for Cultural Innovation Grant
2024 Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts
2022 Graduate Student Association Research Grant, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
2019 Full Graduate Scholarship and Assistantship, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
