born 1969, New York, USA

Dahlia Elsayed's paintings combine text and imagery to create illustrated documents about her environment, resulting in journalistic paintings as records of internal and external geographies. Handwritten text on the painted paper plays an important role in creating narratives between the panels. The work draws on her surroundings, informed by autobiography and landscape to create contemporary cartographies of memory and emotional locations.

Her paintings and artist books have been shown at galleries and art institutions throughout the United States and internationally, including a solo exhibition at the Jersey City Museum. A large number of her works are in the permanent collection of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in New York, as well as the Johnson & Johnson Corporate Collection. Dahlia has received grants from the Edward Albee Foundation, Visual Studies Workshop, The Newark Museum, ArtsLink, The Dodge Foundation, Women's Studio Workshop, and most recently a fellowship from The NJ State Council on the Arts. She received her MFA from Columbia University and lives and works in New Jersey.