About the Artist

Lucia Roohizadegan is a Melbourne-based artist, picture book author–illustrator, book cover artist, and art teacher at the Melbourne Studio of Art and 369 Creative Arts Gallery. Her work celebrates light, colour, and movement, using water-mixable oil, acrylic, and oil paint in a style that ranges from realistic to semi-abstract.

She has exhibited at Belconnen Arts Centre, VAS Gallery, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, the Camberwell Art Show, Sequel Gallery, Herring Island Gallery, Untether Gallery, iSquared Gallery, the Bendigo Art Show, Gallery Unbound, Ladder Art Space, Cherie Brown–The Pink Gallery, Red Gallery, Fitzroy Public Gallery, The Meat Market Stables, the Incognito Art Show, Caelene née Glen, fortyfivedownstairs, and Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery. She has also contributed to community art projects such as The Centenarian Portrait Project by Teenagers.

In 2025, she created the cover artwork for Ján Spišiak’s novel Jedna hodina. Her debut picture book, Ohromný Malý žralok, which she illustrated and co-authored, was published in 2023 and is available in major bookstores across Slovakia, Czechia, and Poland.

She graduated as Dux with an ATAR of 99.90 and perfect scores in Literature, English, and Studio Arts. She went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts at Monash University, receiving the Clive Probyn Prize for Best Overall Student in Literary Studies. She subsequently earned a Graduate Diploma of Editing and Publishing from the University of Southern Queensland, graduating with a perfect GPA.