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LEILA HELLER GALLERY - Aida Mahmudova

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Aida Mahmudova
Passing By…
May 28 – July 3,2015

– Aida Mahmudova’s first solo exhibition 
in the United States, Passing By…, will be 
on view at Leila Heller Gallery, 568 West 
25th Street, from May 28 – July 3, 2015.  

The exhibition will feature eight new 
paintings that build on the themes of 
nostalgia and memory found in her past 
work and draw inspiration from the 
landscape and architecture of Azerbaijan 
where she currently lives and works. 

About the artist 
Born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1982, 

Aida Mahmudova lives and works in Baku. 
Mahmudova has exhibited widely, and will 
be showing seascapes at the 56th Venice 
Biennale as part of the VITA VITALE group 
exhibition curated by Artwise.  

Her sculptural installations and paintings 
have been shown at exhibitions 
internationally including Here Today at the 
Old Sorting Office in London; Love Me, 
Love Me Not at the 55th Venice Biennale; 
Fly To Baku, London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, 
Rome; and Merging Bridges at the 
Museum of Modern Art, Baku, Azerbaijan. 

Her work is held in private collections 
globally and her sculpture Recycled is on 
public display on Baku Boulevard. 

Mahmudova is the Founder and Creative 
Director of YARAT, which was founded with 
a group of artists in 2011.  

YARAT is dedicated to nurturing an 
understanding of contemporary art in 
Azerbaijan and to creating a platform for 
Azerbaijani art, both nationally and 
internationally, and has commissioned The 
Union of Fire and Water project at the 56th 
Venice Biennale.

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