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Zim Syed is a Bangladeshi-American

inter-disciplinary artist with a practice spanning installation, painting, sculpture, and video.

Syed is deeply influenced by his transnational upbringing having spent his childhood between the United States, Bangladesh, and

the United Arab Emirates.

Syed studied Economics at the University of Pittsburgh, where he became actively involved in the local art scene.



Through my practice, I challenge the perception of hierarchy as the natural order of things by recontextualizing objects, space, and function. I believe hierarchy is a construct—one reinforced through physical structures, cultural and class-based narratives, and deeply embedded

belief systems.

My work seeks to interrupt these systems, inviting instability and play, engaging with the physics of imbalance and the tension between material weight and conceptual weightlessness.



In 2022, Syed was awarded both the Distillery Residency at Brew House and the Radiant Hall x Boom Concepts Residency, further developing his multidisciplinary practice. He is currently represented by BoxHeart Gallery.


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