Biography
Alieh Rezaei is an Iranian-born, San Francisco Bay Area–based interdisciplinary artist, working across fiber, drawing, and performance, focusing on the theme of the body and self-authorship. Her work navigates how the material and performative languages of traditional fiber, particularly Iranian felting, can be recontextualized within contemporary frameworks to reflect on cultural and corporeal fluidity. Through fiber art, she challenges systems of power imposed on her body and identity, reclaiming voice, agency, and space by transforming domestic materials into sites of narrative and resistance. Her MFA in Intermedia+Digital Art from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) deepened her engagement with time-based media and experimental storytelling, building upon her prior studies in animation and digital arts in Iran. Alieh’s work has been exhibited at Maryland Art Place, Rochester Art Center (NY), ItsLiquid Group (London), Contemporary Art Modern Project (Miami), Institute of Contemporary Art Baltimore.