Continuously commuting between the worlds of Iran and Europe, Pazooki mainly explores the concept of „borders“. Working with digital media, video and image editing, Pazooki began her early research by experimenting with visual modifications, challenging the „borders“ of visual work in terms of „acceptabillity“; the „licit“ and the“ illicit“ images.

Leila Pazooki was born in 1977 in Teheran, Iran and studied painting at the National Art Academy in Tehran after the revolution. She then went to study in Munich at the Academy of Fine Arts and decided to remain for some time in Mexico. Pazooki now lives in Berlin where she is currently studying a Master Degree at the Berlin University of Arts.

Pazooki has shown her work in various galleries and museums and notably in Tehran, Berlin, Munich, London, Dubai, Mexico City, Guangzhou, Shanghai, San Francisco as well as in New York at the Chelsea Art Museum in the group exhibition "Iran Inside Out" in 2009.