Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist and educator who was born in the Philippines in 1961 and raised there and in Iran. Her BA is from Bennington College in Vermont (1982) and her MA and MFA are from Rosary College Graduate School of Fine Arts, Dominican University, in Florence, Italy (1983, 1984). Roshan also studied in NYC with Julio Alpuy from the Torres Garcia School of Universal Constructivism. More recently, in 2016,18 and 20 she studied traditional Buddhist sacred thangka drawing and painting at the Shechen Monastery’s Tsering Art School in Nepal. Roshan’s work has been exhibited and collected internationally, including in the exhibition TOTEM at the Boca Raton Museum of Art; MEAM in Barcelona; Taubman Gallery at Michigan University; Museo Mazzoni in Maldonado and MuHar 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. Her most recent solo exhibition is Beyond the Physical at the Riverfront Art Gallery, part of the Yonkers Public Library, in February and March 2024. Roshan is an online adjunct drawing instructor at Southern New Hampshire University. She lives and works in Andes, NY.