Roshan Houshmand

I am an Iranian/American artist and educator who was born in the Philippines in 1961. I was raised there and in Iran before coming to the USA in 1976 to finish high school in Colorado.

My BA is from Bennington College in Vermont (1982) and my MA and MFA are from Rosary College Graduate School of Fine Arts, Dominican University, in Florence, Italy (1983, 1984). I also studied in NYC with Julio Alpuy from the Torres Garcia School of Universal Constructivism, based in Uruguay. More recently, in 2016, I studied traditional Tibetan Buddhist sacred thangka drawing and painting at the Institute for Tibetan Thangka Arts in Dharamsala, India, and in 2018 and 2020 at Shechen Monastery’s Tsering Art School in Nepal.

My work has been exhibited and collected internationally, including in the exhibition TOTEM at the Boca Raton Museum of Art; MEAM (Museum of Modern European Art) in Barcelona; Taubman Gallery at Michigan University; Museo Mazzoni in Maldonado and MuHar (Museum of the History of Art) in Montevideo, Uruguay; Italia Docet/Laboratorium (a collaborative event of the 56th Venice Biennale), and 21st Century American Women Artists at the U.S. Mission to NATO in Belgium. My most recent solo exhibition, Beyond the Physical at the Riverfront Art Gallery, part of the Yonkers Public Library, was in February and March 2024. My next solo exhibition will be held at Good Taste in Franklin, NY from October 12 - November 9, 2025, with another scheduled at the Sidney Memorial Public Library in Sidney, NY in the fall of 2026. I am a recipient of numerous grants and awards.