Working in painting, sculpture, printmaking, and photography, the New York–based artist Haley Darya Parsa considers the ways in which images, objects, and rituals are embedded in personal histories and how they are reflected in larger cultural contexts. In her practice, she engages in pictorial modes that center seriality and repetition and gathers subject matter that points to the varying social and personal dimensions that illuminate day-to-day life. Born in Texas and raised in the Iranian diaspora, Parsa renders images that incorporate cultural signifiers—such as Persian rugs and poetry, and tulips—as well as mementos from her family archive, which constitute a visual matrix that is both legible and enigmatic to viewers, one that is permeated with care, humor, tenderness, and longing.
Haley Darya Parsa (b. 1996) received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin before moving to New York, NY where she lives and works.
In 2023, a solo presentation of Parsa’s work, “Tracing a Border (Dissolved with the Sun)”, was on view at Stop-Gap Projects, Columbia, Missouri. In 2020, Parsa's work was the subject of two solo exhibitions at Third Room Project, “The sun leaves me to find you” in Portland, OR and “Sharing Suns” online. In 2019, a solo presentation of her work, “What is Lost in Distance and Separation”, was on view at Winterfeldtstr 56, Berlin, Germany. Parsa has participated in a number of group exhibitions, most recently “Fold”, Stop-Gap Projects, Columbia, Missouri (2025), “After-Hours: People Who Work Here”, David Zwirner, New York, New York (2024), and “Tall Shadows in Short Order”, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, New York (2024).
Parsa was an artist-in-residence at the Wassaic Project in 2025, attended the New York Arts Practicum in 2017, is the 2016 recipient of the University of Texas System Regents' Outstanding Student Awards in Arts and Humanities, and is the 2016 recipient of the Marshall F. Wells Scholarship and Fellowship Endowment to attend the Ox-Bow School of Art in Saugatuck, MI.
Parsa’s work appeared in the Northeast issue No. 176 (2025) and issue No. 158 (2022) of New American Paintings. In 2021, Parsa’s work appeared in issue 22 of Art Maze Magazine and issue 12 of Maake Magazine.
Contact: haleyparsa@gmail.com