Neda Taiyebi is a visual artist working across painting and sculpture. Her research-driven practice examines history and mythology as mutable systems, exploring how knowledge is formed, fractured, and sustained.
Central to her work is an investigation of transformation, extinction, and the fragile boundary between imagination and reality.
She moves between painting and material-driven sculptural processes, with a focus on imagined anatomies and hybrid forms inspired by extinct species. For Taiyebi, material experimentation functions as a way of thinking, allowing form to emerge through making.
Her current material-driven investigations evolved from earlier site-specific works in Afghanistan (2015–2017), where painting and spatial intervention examined political symbolism and lived environments. While the medium has shifted, the underlying inquiry into systems of belief, transformation, and historical memory remains central to her practice.
12th Iranian Ceramic Biennale - Tehran (2025)
Kabul Photography Biennale - Group Exhibition, Kabul (2017)
Site-Specific Interventions & Murals, Various Locations, Afghanistan (2015–2017)
Ceramic & Material Specialist, TORRECID S.A., Turkey
(2018–2022)
Focused on glaze chemistry, material behavior, and industrial ceramic processes, deepening technical knowledge that now informs her studio-based sculptural practice.
Graphic & Environmental Artist, UNESCO Afghanistan
(2015–2017)
Designed visuals and spatial interventions for cultural projects, including the
Bamiyan Cultural Centre competition and the Afghanistan Photography Biennial.
Independent Research-Based Practice (2015 – Present)
Sustained studio-based research exploring the reconstruction of reality through sculptural form, speculative anatomy, and material transformation.