Kayla Mohammadi, born in San Francisco, CA. She received her BFA in Painting from The University of Washington and MFA from Boston University.
Her recent solo and group exhibits include Blue Jade at Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland, Maine; Seeing Through at Cove Street Gallery, Portland, ME; Interconnected at MassArt, Boston, MA; From the Heart at AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH; 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 Surf Point Foundation Residency in York, Maine; 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.
Mohammadi has lectured at institutions including Rhode Island School of Design, University of Washington, Dartmouth College, and Vermont Studio School. She is Assistant Professor at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and lives and works in Boston, MA and Walpole, Maine.