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Not Here, oil on Canvas, 18 x 24in, 2026
Moones Zeydabadi is an Iranian visual artist based in Newark, Delaware. She holds an MFA in Painting from the University of Delaware. Working primarily with oil paint, her practice explores the human condition through subtle psychological states, intimate gestures, and quiet moments of endurance.
Zeydabadi often paints women as extensions of herself, blending art historical references with contemporary experience to reflect on womanhood, memory, and perception. Her layered and intuitive process reveals how vulnerability and strength coexist within the everyday. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows across the United States, Chile, Iran, Canada, and Italy, and has appeared in several international publications. She has also received multiple international film and visual art awards recognizing her multidisciplinary practice.
My paintings are about the human condition, those strange and unfamiliar states of being that surface when emotions blur between comfort and fear, connection and isolation, calm and unease. I paint mostly women because that is the experience I feel best equipped to express. I draw from womanhood in art history, blending women familiar from painting traditions with contemporary and personal narratives. I’m chasing the quietest moments when reality feels slightly off, like recognizing a stranger’s face. Each gesture becomes a way to keep existing and to soften the noise inside. The women I paint are composites of myself, forms of self-portraiture that exist between presence and absence. They are awake yet dreaming with open eyes. I work through thin veils of color, glazing, wiping, and reworking the surface until an image begins to emerge through moments that are witnessed, lived, and reimagined in paint.
Not Here, oil on Canvas, 18 x 24in, 2026
Moones Zeydabadi is an Iranian visual artist based in Newark, Delaware. She holds an MFA in Painting from the University of Delaware. Working primarily with oil paint, her practice explores the human condition through subtle psychological states, intimate gestures, and quiet moments of endurance.
Zeydabadi often paints women as extensions of herself, blending art historical references with contemporary experience to reflect on womanhood, memory, and perception. Her layered and intuitive process reveals how vulnerability and strength coexist within the everyday. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows across the United States, Chile, Iran, Canada, and Italy, and has appeared in several international publications. She has also received multiple international film and visual art awards recognizing her multidisciplinary practice.
My paintings are about the human condition, those strange and unfamiliar states of being that surface when emotions blur between comfort and fear, connection and isolation, calm and unease. I paint mostly women because that is the experience I feel best equipped to express. I draw from womanhood in art history, blending women familiar from painting traditions with contemporary and personal narratives. I’m chasing the quietest moments when reality feels slightly off, like recognizing a stranger’s face. Each gesture becomes a way to keep existing and to soften the noise inside. The women I paint are composites of myself, forms of self-portraiture that exist between presence and absence. They are awake yet dreaming with open eyes. I work through thin veils of color, glazing, wiping, and reworking the surface until an image begins to emerge through moments that are witnessed, lived, and reimagined in paint.
