Shahroud Ghahani is an Iranian–Australian visual artist based on Gadigal land in Sydney. Her practice brings together richly layered imagery drawn from diverse cultural traditions, informed by her lived experience across them.

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She holds a Master of Art from the University of New South Wales (Art & Design) and has exhibited extensively across Australia. Her works are held in private collections both nationally and internationally.

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Her work investigates representations of the female body, engaging with notions of beauty, the grotesque, and identity across Eastern and Western visual traditions.

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Ghahani’s practice is further informed by an interest in metaphysical inquiry. Through dreamlike, liminal, and imagined spaces, she weaves together displaced objects and allegorical imagery, inviting layered readings that move between the symbolic and the experiential.

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She was awarded the 2024 Grace Cossington Smith Biennial Art Award (Local Artist category). Her work has been recognised as a finalist in numerous prestigious prizes, including the Gosford Art Prize (2024; Commendation, 2023), Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (2022–2025), Hornsby Art Prize (2025), Wollongong Art Prize (2025), and the Flow Contemporary Art Prize (2024), among others.

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She is currently an artist in residence at Gallery Lane Cove, as part of the program managed by Lane Cove Council.