Leila Zelli

Born in Tehran (Iran), Leila Zelli works in Montréal. MFA (2020) from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Zelli is interested in the relationship that we have with the ideas of “others” and “elsewhere” and more specifically within this geopolitical space often referred to by the questionable term “Middle East.” Her work has been shown, among others, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and at the Toronto Biennial (2024). Her videos are in the permanent collections of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. She is the laureate of the 2023 Prix Lynne-Cohen and the 2021 winner of the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art.  “About Dam and Hofit” (2022), a film co-created with Gali Blay, was honored at the Athens Animfest and screened internationally.