I am an Iranian/American artist and educator, born in the Philippines in 1961. Raised there and Iran, I finished high school in Colorado in 1978. 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 studied in NYC with Julio Alpuy from the Torres Garcia School of Universal Constructivism of Uruguay. In 2016 I studied Tibetan Buddhist thangka drawing and painting at ITTA in Dharamsala, India, and in 2018 and 2020 at Shechen Monastery’s Tsering Art School in Nepal.

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My work has been exhibited and collected internationally, including 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.

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Roshan's Houshmand's Mandela Project is made possible with funds from the Delaware County Arts Grants, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered in Delaware County by the Roxbury Arts Group.

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Roshan is an an online adjunct humanities and drawing instructor with SNHU. She lives and works in Andes, NY. Read more about the artist here: Roshan Houshmand: A Spiritual Journey Through Paint and Mandala