Aziza Abdieva

Aziza Abdieva is a Kyrgyz artist-alchemist based in Miami, Florida. Her practice explores the transformative potential within opposing forces: contraction and expansion, darkness and light, separation and connection, the visible and invisible, the material and immaterial. Through an alchemical approach to artmaking, she investigates the space between these opposites, creating artworks that serve as portals for transformation.

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Approaching artmaking as a process of inquiry and transmutation, Abdieva begins with questions that guide her choice of materials, mediums, and methods. Her multidisciplinary practice spans photography, sculpture, jewelry, performance, video, and immersive installation, often incorporating scientific research and interdisciplinary collaborations to explore the relationships between the body, emotion, energy, and the natural world.

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Central to her work is the study of patterns and symbolic systems found in nature, geometry, human behavior, and culture. Growing up in Kyrgyzstan, Abdieva was deeply influenced by her nomadic heritage and her mother's shamanic practice and relationship with nature. These influences inform her use of symbolism, material experimentation, and ritual-based processes, through which she explores the interconnectedness of internal and external worlds.

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Abdieva holds an MFA in Photography from Texas Tech University and a BA in Communication and Design from Bilkent University. In 2026, she presented her solo exhibition, Fear Alchemy, at the St. George Art Museum in Utah.