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		BIO Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian-American artist who was born in 1961 in the Philippines. She was raised in the Philippines and Iran.  Her MA and MFA are from Rosary College of Illinois Graduate Program in Florence, Italy, (1983, 84) and her BA is from Bennington College in Vermont where she received awards for outstanding work and leadership in the arts (1982). For several years she studied with Julio Alpuy, a preeminent member of the Atelier of Joaquin Torres Garcia, founder of Universal Constructivism. Roshan Houshmand has been exhibiting her work for over two decades in New York,  Los Angeles, New Orleans, Santa Fe, Barcelona, Brussels and Copenhagen, among other locations. She is a 2005 recipient of the NY State Council on the Arts Decentralization Grant and a 2006 grant recipient from the US Government for “21st Century American Women Artists”.  Her work has been included in “Totem” at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, “Evolving Perceptions” at The National Press Club in Washington, DC, and most recently “21st Century American Women Artists” at Truman Hall, US Mission to NATO in Belgium  (http://nato.usmission.gov/dossier/Women.asp). Roshan Houshmand's work has recently been featured in Symmetry Magazine (http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000499) and on the Brookhaven National Laboratory's website commemorating their 60th anniversary (http://www.bnl.gov/60th/houshmand.asp). Roshan Houshmand’s work is in private collections in Denmark, Spain, UK, Germany, Belgium, Cyprus, Italy, Costa Rica and the United States.  She has taught at Penn State University, the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Winchester Graduate School of Art and La Massana in Barcelona.  Currently she teaches at the State University of New York in Delhi, New York (SUNY Delhi). STATEMENT Making art has always been my way to understand, question and explore life.   My work is about relationships and evokes my daily experiences.  Risk-taking, intuition and awareness are major components in my painting and life processes.  Travel and displacement have stimulated much of my artistic development.

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