📩 Let’s collaborate: email me at roshanak.r@gmail.com.
I’m Roshi Rouzbehani, a London-based freelance illustrator from Iran. I create socially-conscious illustrations that champion women’s empowerment, gender equality, and social justice. I work on editorial illustration, illustrated books, and visual campaigns, bringing ideas to life with creativity, storytelling, and impact.
I’m also an art & craft workshop facilitator, helping kids and communities explore creativity, develop new skills, and express themselves through hands-on projects that inspire confidence and imagination.
I’d love to hear about your project and co-create something meaningful with you. Get in touch at roshanak.r@gmail.com or find me on Instagram.
Selected Client List:
Sephora, Guardian, New Yorker, Locarno Film Festival, Amnesty International, Macmillan Publishers, The Washington Post, The Sociological Review, Die Zeit, Project Everyone (Global Goals), Eater, Duckworth Books, Courrier International, ico Design, Doha Debates, Period Futures, Bologna Jazz Festival & more.
Features and awards:
2025: Creative Boom
2022: Creative Boom, Design Week, Nowruz Journal, The Washington Post 2021: A portfolio of illustrations, International Women’s Day
2021: Middle East Images, ZH Magazine, designers of colour
2020: Middle East Eye, Creative Boom, Pathways (Book of the week), Long-listed for World Illustration Awards 2020, Ms. Magazine, Women’s March San Diego Covid19 resources, the University of Hertfordshire School of Creative Arts Alumni showcase
2019: Interview about my book “50 Inspiring Iranian Women”, BBC Persian, IDI website for Social Awareness, Uppercase Magazine, issue 42, Selected website as one of the best online New Blood portfolios in New Blood Festival, Runner-up in Creative Quarterly 56, Honorable mention in 3x3 International Illustration Show No.16 - Student Show, Shortlisted in The Brightness Awards 2019 (Editorial Category)
Talks:
“On migration and identity”, about my book: Migrated Keepsakes, SOAS University, 8 March 2025
“Iran: Woman, Life, Freedom”, Wimbledon Book Festival, 14 Oct 2023
“Woman, Life, Freedom: Voices and art from the women’s protests in Iran”, Rich Mix, 15 Sep 2023
“Woman, Life, Freedom; The Sounds of A Revolution”, Coventry Cathedral, 20 May 2023
“Woman, Life, Freedom: Artists in Solidarity”, SOAS University, 18 Mar 2023
“Women, Life, Freedom', and the Arts”, V&A South Kensington, 17 February 2023
“Iranian female artists’ works and the Women, Life, Freedom revolution”, Royal Drawing School, 25 January 2023
“Art in Migration”, UCL Iranian colloquium, UCL campus, 13th November 2015
“Nude vs. Pornography?”, UCL Iranian colloquium, UCL campus,16th May 2013
Exhibitions:
Solo show, Amnesty UK, London, March 2025
Group show, Bolognia Jazz Festival, Italy, 2023
Group show, Women, Life, Freedom, Saarland Museum - Modern Gallery, Germany, 2023-24
Group shows in light of Women, Life, Freedom movement, US and Italy, 2022-23
Group show, Au Nom Des Femmes, Galerie Le Bocal, Toulouse, France, June 2021
Group Show, The Blooming Apples, The Burge House, London, UK, August 2019
Group show, Latuvu Gallery, Bages, France, 12-28 April 2019
Group show, Galerie Zone d’Art, Strasbourg, France, 9-24 March 2019