Leyla Stevens is a Sydney based artist whose practice involves photographic and video based media that shift between documentary image making and performative imaginations. Her current research focuses on social spaces and embodied practices that address transcultural histories and relations. She holds a MFA by Research from Sydney College of the Arts and since graduating in 2011 has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Group exhibitions include being selected for the 2014 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) at Artspace, 63rd Blake Prize at UNSW Galleries and the 2014 SafARI biennale. In 2015 she was awarded a Skills and Development (General) grant through the Australia Council for the Arts which was used to undertake an artist mentorship program in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She is currently undertaking doctoral research at the University of Technology Sydney.
