Kayla Mohammadi
Kayla Mohammadi, born in San Francisco, received her B.F.A. from University of Washington and M.F.A. from Boston University. Her recent exhibits include Overlap at Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME; The Shape of Color at Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, ME; One Place, Two Views at Maier Art Museum, Lynchburg, VA; Contemporary Responses to Modernism at University of Southern Maine; and Patterns of Influence at The Painting Center, NYC. Kayla Mohammadi is the recipient of several awards including: The American Academy of Arts and Letters Childe Hassam Purchase Prize in 2014; the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Painters in 2008 and the Joan Mitchell Artist Residency in New Orleans; the Dedalus Foundation Award for the Vermont Studio School Fellowship in 2008; the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant in 2006; the Blanche E. Colman Award in 2004; and the Constantin Alajalov Scholarship.
She has lectured at institutions including Rhode Island School of Design, University of Washington, and Dartmouth College. She is Assistant Professor at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and lives and works in Boston and Walpole, Maine.
