Leila Delfan

Visual & Public Artist

Transforming urban surfaces into living fields of memory, narrative, and spatial experience.

Leila Delfan is a visual and public artist whose practice operates across both large-scale urban interventions and studio-based work. Her projects engage directly with the material and historical layers of the built environment, while her studio works extend these investigations into object, surface, and form.
Her ongoing series Surface as Memory explores the wall as an active site—where erosion, cracks, and architectural fragments become integral to the image. Drawing from Persian miniature traditions and recontextualizing them within contemporary contexts, Delfan constructs visual narratives that move between public space and intimate scale, image and structure, history and transformation.
Commissioned across multiple cities, including Tehran, Isfahan, Mashhad, and Kerman, her work contributes to a redefinition of public art as a dialogue between cultural memory and the evolving urban landscape.