Leila Sujir

Over the last thirty years, Leila Sujir has been building a body of video art works using a mix of fiction, fantasy and documentary with visual and audio collage techniques. Her video art works have been shown in group shows at the Museum of Modern Art (New York) and the Tate Gallery (Liverpool), as well as galleries all over the world, most recently at the Fotofest Biennial in Houston, Texas, in “INDIA - Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art“ (2018) and at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, in “Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest” (2018). In2016, she began working with curator Haema Sivanesan and cinematographer Chris Kroitor on an expanded media work, “Forest!” in the south Walbran old growth forests on Vancouver Island. “Aerial” with XL curator Janine Marchessault and producer Chris Kroitor continues an exploration of those forests. Leila Sujir is chair of the Studio Arts Department at Concordia University, where she teaches in the Intermedia area.