Multidisciplinary artist Roksana Pirouzmand is °µÍø½ûÇø’s Wanlass Artist in Residence for this academic year. Pirouzmand's work will be featured in a solo exhibition at OXY ARTS in Spring 2026.
The Wanlass Artist in Residence is a year-long residency program that allows an artist to investigate aspects of their practice and share it with the College and the community at large. The program encourages cross-campus collaboration and provides Occidental students with the opportunity to learn from contemporary working visual artists.
Roksana Pirouzmand is an artist working and living in Los Angeles. Her practice centers sculptural objects and installations that are deeply connected to corporeality—sometimes physically, other times through metaphor or symbolism. Her work is shaped by personal memory, especially the complex and layered experiences of diaspora, history, and time. As an Iranian woman living in the U.S., Pirouzmand often draws from personal history, utilizing organic materials such as clay and water to share the complexity of familial bonds across time and place. She builds systems that allow the work to shift, move, and sometimes deteriorate—reflecting the transformations and uncertainties of life in exile, intergenerational memory, and processes of holding and letting go.
The Wanlass Artist in Residence Program is made possible by generous support from the Kathryn Caine Wanlass Charitable Foundation.
