2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition

Tea for a Hedgehog
Steel sheet, steel rods, steel wool, steel scrubbers, steel tea strainers, steel flanges, steel needles, steel butcher hooks, thimbles
4’x8’ (out of 8'x8')
2026

Plexus
Wool, wood
Size variable
2025

Family Portrait
Wool, domestic objects
Size variable
2024

Playground
Installation
Felt, rebar, wool-infused gelatin-based bioplastic, steel, oil on canvas
Size variable
2025

Kulek
Clay, underglaze pencil
23"x15"
2025

Aida Sulova explores Central Asian material heritage and Soviet history through sculpture and fiber art with a focus on the material intelligence and lived memory of wool, metal, wood, and found domestic objects. Her artistic gestures include stitching, bending, and repurposing, gestures that treat craft as a critical tool for hard-to-represent history, labor, and care. 

By braiding soft with rigid, cold with warm, ancestral with contemporary, Sulova reflects on rupture, dislocation, and homemaking. These shifts are materialized in her sculptures and “nomadular” architecture, a term that she coined from “nomad” and “modular” to refer to structures that can be easily disassembled, folded, and stored. This concept emerged from the lived need to carry a home on a back and create forms of belonging. Personal memory and political history are inseparable in her practice, as she works with materials that, like bodies, remember, deform, and survive, carrying the weight of histories that cannot be held by flesh and memory alone. 

Aida Sulova is a Kyrgyzstan-born, New York-based artist. Working across sculpture and fiber art, her practice is centered on material intelligence of wool, metal, wood, and found domestic objects. At the core of Aida’s practice is a deep engagement with vibrancy and agency of materials that carry histories of resilience and survival. 

Alongside her studio practice, Sulova is a teaching artist working with youth and community organizations in New York.

Aida is completing her MFA at Parsons School of Design with a minor in anthropology and design and holds BS from New York University. Fellow of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Residency Unlimited, and the Artistic Freedom Initiative.