Kayla Mohammadi was born in San Francisco, CA. She received her BFA in Painting from The University of Washington and an MFA from Boston University.
Mohammadi is the recipient of several awards including: The Surf Point Foundation Residency in York, Maine; The American Academy of Arts and Letters Childe Hassam Purchase Prize in 2014; The Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Painters in 2008 and the Joan Mitchell Residency in New Orleans; the Daedalus Foundation Award for the Vermont Studio School Fellowship in 2008; the Ludwig Vogelstain Foundation Grant in 2006; the Blanche E. Colman Award in 2004.
Her most recent solo exhibition at Caldbeck was in 2024: Mohammadi BLUE JADE 2024
Other recent solo and group exhibits include Seeing Through at Cove Street Gallery, Portland, ME; Interconnected at MassArt, Boston, MA; From the Heart at AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH; Overlap at Cadlbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME; The Shape of Color at Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, ME; One Place Two Views at Maier Art Museum, Lynchburg, VA; Contemporary Responses to Modernism at University of Southern Maine; and Patterns of Influence at The Painting Center, NYC. Mohammadi’s work Blue Jade, Surf Point, 2024, is in the collection of the Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, Maine.
Mohammadi has lectured at institutions including Rhode Island School of Design, University of Washington, Dartmouth College, and Vermont Studio. She is Assistant Professor at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and lives and works in Boston and Walpole, Maine.
Kayla Mohammadi http://www.kaylamohammadi.com
