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) was born in Dallas, Texas and currently lives and works in New York. Parsa received a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2018.
Solo exhibitions of Parsa’s work include Tracing a Border (Dissolved with the Sun), stop-gap projects, Columbia, Missouri (2023); The sun leaves me to find you, Third Room, Portland, Oregon (2020); Sharing Suns, Third Room, online (2020); and What is Lost in Distance and Separation, Winterfeldtstr 56, Berlin, Germany (2019).
Parsa has also been included in group exhibitions at David Zwirner, New York (2024); Wassaic Project, Wassaic, New York (2024); Cluster Museum, Ann Arbor, Michigan (2026); stop-gap projects, Columbia, Missouri (2025); Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (2022); Visual Arts Center, Austin, Texas (2018, 2017); Austin City Hall, Austin, Texas (2017); Dimension Gallery, Austin, Texas (2017); LATELA Gallery, Washington D.C. (2017), among others.
Parsa was an Artist in Residence at the Wassaic Project in Wassaic, New York in 2025 and attended the New York Arts Practicum in 2017. The artist is the recipient of The University of Texas System Regents' Outstanding Student Award in Arts and Humanities (2016). She was awarded the Marshall F. Wells Scholarship and Fellowship Endowment to attend the Ox-Bow School of Art in Saugatuck, Michigan in 2016.
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