Bio
Maryam Hosseinzadeh has spent her whole life getting to know Los Angeles. She organizes walks, talks to strangers (also acquaintances and friends), pieces together new archives, and sometimes does other things to bridge the gap between archives and the street through community arts programming and regional history with a focus on Los Angeles County. She is interested in how individual and shared experiences, memories, and sites interact with political and physical infrastructures to form spaces in-between where new understandings and possibilities can grow. She believes in friendliness, collaboration, mutual curiosity, transparency, relationship building, and listening as a practice towards fuller narratives around public places and public histories. Her walks and archive-based projects have been presented through the Armory, Clockshop, CicLAvia, Human Resources, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Museum of Neon Art, Oxy Arts, and the Feminist Center for Creative Work, among others.
Maryam officially studied Los Angeles’s land use, built environment and California history in the Historic Preservation program at USC but has learned much more unofficially through her lifelong journey in the diasporic landscapes of 1980s and 1990s LA. She has lived most of her life bouncing between two ends of the Arroyo Seco—Altadena to Northeast LA. One of her earliest visual memories is of a fantastical storage yard of discarded signs you could see from the freeway nestled at the confluence of the 110, the 5, and Avenue 26.
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