Roya Ahmadi is a Muslim, Iranian-American multimedia artist from the Bay Area in California. She works in installation, collage, painting, and sculpture. drawing on Muslim and Iranian art traditions to make work rooted in anti-imperial solidarity building, navigating diasporic identity formation, and understanding gender, sexuality, memory, and multigenerationality. Roya creates work that explores storytelling, futurism, and liberatory practice through collapsing history and visions for the future. Roya is a junior at Stanford studying Human Biology with a concentration in Southwest Asian North African Women’s Health and a minor in Interdisciplinary Arts.

Ahmadi’s paintings have been exhibited at the Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University, as well as at American Muslim Futures.

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Roya Ahmadi discusses her painting “Al Jannah”

A brief analysis of the painting “Al Jannah” in English, Mandarin Chinese, and Farsi.

 
 
 
 
 
hi everyone! I’m super excited to announce that I’m going to be a part of the American Muslim Futures virtual exhibit! The exhibit features 23 Muslim & Muslim-allied artists from across the US working in all sorts of different medium
work in progress! I’m super excited about this piece! It’s the largest painting I’ve ever done (30 x 42) and is about the impact of colonialism on diasporic identity (will write out & post a detailed description once I finish!!
I realized I never posted the finished version of this painting! 🌟🌟 this piece is pretty important for me because I see it as a transitional point in my art. When I first started art, to learn and develop skills I would find an image of another per
“الجنة” (“Al jannah” the word for heaven in Arabic, acrylic on wood plank) This piece is a painting of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing with elements of Islamic architecture and calligraphy intertwined with traditional Chinese
“Aflame”🔥 . . With this piece I sought to portray the resilience and boldness of Middle Eastern woman in a time when their identity is under attack. The background is made up of newspaper articles that negatively portray the Middle East
work in progress✨🎨💘 Currently working on a watercolor painting of my mom!
My newest oil painting!
Been trying some more abstract drawings recently!
Oil on canvas 🎨
Watercolor 8.5x11