Layla Zubi (b. 1991, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA) (they/she) is an interdisciplinary artist of Palestinian and Uzbek heritage from the Saint Louis metropolitan area and Southern illinois region. Influenced by spatial living environments of their youth and art history, they make experimental displays that feature disassembled, building materials found in suburban design houses as an act of resisting homogeneity. In addition, the work they make reveal obscure narratives and its nuances as a refusal of cultural reduction. Visual explorations that inform their multi-cultural, spiritual experience include aerial layouts, the presence of the body, communal gathering, and cultural resistance symbols. Zubi has presented in solo and group exhibitions across select regions of the United States, Jordan, and Turkiye. Past residencies Zubi has participated in include Acre, Ox-Bow School of art, & TAB Residency at Princes’ Islands in Turkiye. They earned a Bachelor of Arts in studio art with an art history minor from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 2014 and an Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art from Cornell University in 2022.
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