Roya Ahmadi is a Muslim, Iranian-American multimedia artist from the Bay Area in California. She works in video installation, sculpture, film, poetry, and collage. Roya studied Southwest Asian and North African Women’s Health, Human Biology, and Interdisciplinary Arts at Stanford University. Drawing on Muslim and Iranian art traditions she makes work rooted in anti-imperial solidarity and navigates diasporic identity formation. Her work grapples with grief, multigenerational memory, and futurism in a process that involves returning to the same materials, studying ritual devotional practice, and working in conversation with ancestors. Roya plans to pursue a career as an OB/GYN working globally to address women’s health disparities.
Ahmadi’s paintings have been exhibited at the Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Public Space One Gallery Iowa City, IA, 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.
