Interdisciplinary Visual Artist
Mozhdeh Zandieh-Grayson is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose practice explores perception through site-specific installations, material interventions, and expanded sculptural forms. Working across installation, sculpture, mixed media, and photographic processes, she investigates how matter, landscape, and light shape human experience and emotional states.
Her work is grounded in material experimentation and often engages directly with public and non-institutional spaces, where context becomes part of the work itself. Through repeated explorations of thresholds—between presence and absence, permanence and disappearance—her practice reflects on how meaning is formed through environment and time.
She studied Art and Architecture in high school, holds a BA in Graphic Design, and earned an MFA with distinction from the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), UK.
Her work has been presented in exhibitions, public installations, and publications across Dubai, Paris, and the United Kingdom. In 2019 and 2020, she presented large-scale digital installations at Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Art Nights. Since 2023, her practice has expanded into one-day public interventions in unexpected landscapes and urban sites, particularly through the ongoing HOPE series, which investigates immediacy, accessibility, and human presence within public space.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
2024 Sand, Wind, Sun – HOPE / Landscapes Series, Interactive Public Installation — Dubai, UAE
2024 As The Tide Circling Your Feet – HOPE, Site-specific Installation, JBR Beach — Dubai, UAE
2023 As The Tide Circling Your Feet – HOPE, Site-specific Installation, Open Beach — Dubai, UAE
2023 Every You. Every Me., Site-specific Installation, The Courtyard — Dubai, UAE
2023 The Darker, The Brighter, Space Installation, Total Arts Gallery — Dubai, UAE
2021 Hands, Hearts, Skins, Eyes, Total Arts Gallery — Dubai, UAE
2015 Anew, World Art Dubai — Dubai, UAE
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 SIKKA 2026, Dubai Culture, Shivelight & The Landscape Of Hope Installations, Al Shindagha Historic District — Dubai, UAE
2025 DIFC Art Nights, 18th Edition, Circle of Hope Installation, DIFC Podium — Dubai, UAE
2024 Made in Tashkeel, 14th Edition, The Wave Sculpture Installation, Tashkeel Gallery, Alserkal Avenue — Dubai, UAE
2023 Quoz Arts Fest, Every You, Every Me - Installation, The Courtyard — Dubai, UAE
2021 Made in Tashkeel, 11th Edition, Reconnection (“BRIDGES” Series), Tashkeel — Dubai, UAE
2021 Emerging Scene, World Art Dubai — Dubai, UAE
2020 DIFC Art Nights, 13th Edition, Digital Installation — Dubai, UAE
2020 UCA MFA Graduate Show: No-Show — United Kingdom
2019 Fractures, Total Arts Gallery — Dubai, UAE
2019 DIFC Art Nights, 12th Edition, Digital Installation — Dubai, UAE
2018 DIFC Art Nights, 11th Edition, What Do You See, What I Remember - Sculpture Installation — Dubai, UAE
2015 Windows II, Art Plus Gallery — Dubai, UAE
2014 Next Step Biennale — Paris, France
2026 Commissioned Artist, Dubai Culture — SIKKA 2026, Dubai, UAE
2025 Featured Artist, Courtyard Book — Dubai, UAE
2024 A Sustainable Future by C.A.C., The Matter of “If” — HOPE included in Photo Archive, Loupe® — United States
2024 Climate Art Collection, The Matter of “If” — HOPE Land Art Installation — Berlin, Germany
2022 Finalist, Artist of the Month, Circle Foundation for the Arts — Lyon, France
2022 Certificate of Artistic Achievement, Luxembourg Art Prize — Luxembourg
2020 Recognised Artist, Luxembourg Art Prize — Luxembourg
2020 Finalist Artist, Rove Art Prize — Dubai, UAE
2020 Artist Award for Digital Installation, DIFC Art Nights — Dubai, UAE
2019 Certificate of Excellence, ArtExpo New York Contest
2018 Selected Artist, International Emerging Artists Award, DIFC Public Digital Art Installation — Dubai, UAE
2018 Finalist, Artist of the Year Award, Circle Foundation for the Arts — Lyon, France
2018 Artist of the Week, Emerging Scene — Dubai, UAE
2016 Shortlisted Artist, 4th International Emerging Artist Awards — Dubai, UAE
2015 Member of the Artists’ Committee, ArtProtagonist — Italy
2014 Featured Artist, Next Step Biennale — Paris, France2025 Featured Artist, Courtyard Book — Dubai, UAE
2022 Awarded Artist Interview, Circle Foundation For The Arts, France
2020 Featured Artist, Low Update Magazine — Dubai, UAE
2020 No-Show, UCA Virtual Catalogue, UK
EDUCATION
2017–2020 MFA, Fine Arts, with Distinction, University for the Creative Arts (UCA) — United Kingdom
1997–2001 BA, Graphic Design, with Distinction, Soore University of Tehran — Tehran, Iran
1993–1997 Diploma, Art & Architecture, with Distinction, Zeynabiye School of Arts — Tehran, Iran
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
2024 Sand, Wind, Sun – HOPE / Landscapes Series, Interactive Public Installation — Dubai, UAE
2024 As The Tide Circling Your Feet – HOPE, Site-specific Installation, JBR Beach — Dubai, UAE
2023 As The Tide Circling Your Feet – HOPE, Site-specific Installation, Open Beach — Dubai, UAE
2023 Every You. Every Me., Site-specific Installation, The Courtyard — Dubai, UAE
2023 The Darker, The Brighter, Space Installation, Total Arts Gallery — Dubai, UAE
2021 Hands, Hearts, Skins, Eyes, Total Arts Gallery — Dubai, UAE
2015 Anew, World Art Dubai — Dubai, UAE
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 SIKKA 2026, Dubai Culture, Shivelight & The Landscape Of Hope Installations, Al Shindagha Historic District — Dubai, UAE
2025 DIFC Art Nights, 18th Edition, Circle of Hope Installation, DIFC Podium — Dubai, UAE
2024 Made in Tashkeel, 14th Edition, The Wave Sculpture Installation, Tashkeel Gallery, Alserkal Avenue — Dubai, UAE
2023 Quoz Arts Fest, Every You, Every Me - Installation, The Courtyard — Dubai, UAE
2021 Made in Tashkeel, 11th Edition, Reconnection (“BRIDGES” Series), Tashkeel — Dubai, UAE
2021 Emerging Scene, World Art Dubai — Dubai, UAE
2020 DIFC Art Nights, 13th Edition, Digital Installation — Dubai, UAE
2020 UCA MFA Graduate Show: No-Show — United Kingdom
2019 Fractures, Total Arts Gallery — Dubai, UAE
2019 DIFC Art Nights, 12th Edition, Digital Installation — Dubai, UAE
2018 DIFC Art Nights, 11th Edition, What Do You See, What I Remember - Sculpture Installation — Dubai, UAE
2015 Windows II, Art Plus Gallery — Dubai, UAE
2014 Next Step Biennale — Paris, France
PUBLICATIONS & FEATURES2025
2025 Featured Artist, Courtyard Book — Dubai, UAE
2022 Awarded Artist Interview, Circle Foundation For The Arts, France
2020 Featured Artist, Low Update Magazine — Dubai, UAE
2020 No-Show, UCA Virtual Catalogue, UK
COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES
Conceptory Paris
Loupe® Photo Archive — United States
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Current Member, Courtyard Art Community — Dubai, UAE
Tashkeel Art Community — Dubai, UAE
Arts Council England — United Kingdom
TEXTS & RESEARCH
2021 Images and Imaginations
2020 Words and the Significance of the Unheard
2019 Visual Alchemy: Secrets of Existence
2019 Unheard: The Act of Voice in the Poetry of Words
2018 Change of Change