Roya Ziba’s name means beautiful dream in Farsi. Her multimedia artwork reflects a diverse background in conceptual craft, incorporating ceramics, sonic compositions, performance, sculpture, paintings, and photo-video to create large bodies of work. Drawing upon personal experiences and observations of life, Ziba’s interdisciplinary approach to art conveys poetic and critical ideas while contributing to conversations about nature, culture, and society. She plans to continue exploring the relationships between human and non-human animals’ plight for refuge to address questions on how we relate to one another and our environment through material and immaterial forms.

Speaking through art has always been her primary and preferred form of language. Living as a youth in a Baptist orphanage, Ziba was given academic instruction in ceramics, art and music. She continued processing communication through art and sound throughout her life working in photo-film productions and studying in workshops and community courses in America and Europe. In 2015, she released an EP of sonic poetry, entitled Painting Alone. She graduated with high distinction from CalArts in Fine Art (2018) and was awarded a year-long ceramics internship at Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts (2021). She recently completed an experimental music and contemporary art residency in the Republic of Georgia (2022). After working at project Pondalize in Namegawa, Japan (2023), she is looking forward to carrying on her research and works throughout the Alps in Japan, Italy and Switzerland.