Illya Mousavijad received a BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and an MFA from the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, PA. He is an Assistant Professor of Art and Technology in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH.

 

Mousavijad is an interdisciplinary and multisensorial artist whose work navigates exile, displacement, migration, cultural memory, and belonging. His practice examines how identity and lived experience are shaped through movement, social conditions, and embodied rituals. In recent projects, he engages culinary art and food practices as sites of storytelling, labor, critical inquiry, and communal memory.

 

He works across computer animation, virtual reality, installation, painting, sculpture, video, and participatory experiences. He has collaborated with international artists across disciplines and has exhibited his work globally.