Roham Fayazi is an Iranian artist working in oil on canvas and ink on paper. His expressionistic figurative work returns persistently to mythology, the body, and the figure as it is contained — or fails to be contained — by architectural space.

Figures, animals, and architecture surface through accumulated line, held deliberately short of resolution. The density itself carries the image as much as anything legible within it.

He began as a cinematographer in Tehran before leaving to study painting, first at the Academy of Fine Arts in Yerevan and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, from 2003 to 2007.

His work has been shown internationally since: several solo exhibitions at the Art Center in Berlin between 2007 and 2010, and two at Dukley Gallery in Budva, Montenegro — "A Bad Land, but a Heroic One" in 2017 and "Absences" in 2018 — where he was artist-in-residence under the mentorship of Russian gallerist Murat Guelman. In 2024 he showed in "Nahual," a group exhibition at Cabin Gallery in Berlin.

Alongside the studio practice, he takes on editorial commissions, carrying the same hand into illustration. His work has appeared in Roads & Kingdoms, the James Beard Award–winning magazine.

He now lives and works in Mexico City.