Rajab Ali Sayed (b.1990) is a visual artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He received his BFA from the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan in 2013, and his MFA from the University of Houston, TX in 2017. He attended Augustana University in Sioux Falls, SD as a Fulbright Exchange Scholar (2011) and completed the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation Residency (2017) and Vermont Studio Center Residency (2017). He has also taught drawing and painting at The University of Houston (2017) and Art League Houston (2018) and is now a part of the performing arts faculty at Bridges Academy, Studio City, LA. 

Rajab's work has been published in Friend of The Artist (2017) and Create Magazine (2018). His work has exhibited at Blaffer Art Museum, Houston TX, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston TX, Bank of America Center, Houston TX, Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX, Craighead Green, Dallas, TX, Viridian Artists, NYC, 1969 Gallery NYC, and Unicorn Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan. 

He completed an artist in-residence at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles (2019) and his painting, "Partition'' is presently on view as a 9x9 foot mural at West Hollywood Park's Parking Structure on San Vicente and Santa Monica, through December 2020. His latest exhibition Layercake is viewable virtually through September 20th 2020 on views.yngspc.com/layercake, curated by Vancouver based curator Mallory Gemmel and programmed by YNGSPC.