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​Zim Syed is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores themes of identity, space, and memory through painting, sculpture, and installation. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Syed spent his childhood between the United States, Bangladesh, and The United Arab Emirates. He uses form to express personal reflections on the tension between cultural heritage and spatial politics.



Through my practice, I undertake spatial interventions that engage instability, humor, and play as tools to explore the precarious nature of the self and its relationship to the space it occupies. I aim to critically examine the effect of changing landscapes on identity, and its relation to migration, labour, and the formation of the self and the collective.



Syed was the lead artist on the John Lewis Mural, located on Locust Street in Pittsburgh’s Uptown neighborhood, which promotes visual messages about police brutality, systemic racism, and gun violence. In 2021, he received a BIPOC Micro-Grant from the Pittsburgh Foundation’s Center for Philanthropy. In 2022, Syed was awarded the Brew House’s Distillery residency along with the Radiant Hall x Boom Concepts residency that same year. Syed is currently represented by BoxHeart Gallery.


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