Leila Rastegar

Leila Rastegar is an Iranian born artist. From her childhood she was pursuing her dreams to become a professional artist, but due to the situation of her life Leila received a BS in Computer Engineering from Shiraz University in Iran in 1988. Rastegar, however, attended private Art School to keep her passion for art alive.
In August 2001, she immigrated to United States with her family, and her dreams begin to become reality.
She attended North Dakota State University, where she studied BFA. After finishing her baccalauteate degree,  she got her MFA in painting and drawing at the University of North Dakota, in May 2011. She has exhibited her work extensively in North Dakota-Minnesota area.
She is, currently, a full time artist. Her style is representational with direct, painterly approach.
Her most recent project encompasses a series of landscape of Minnesota to capture the soul of the environment of the current place of residence.

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