Roja Shams is a Swedish-Persian artist based in Stockholm. The exploration of consciousness lies at the core of her practice, unfolding across distinct bodies of work and visual languages.

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Working intuitively and spontaneously, she builds layered compositions where colour, form and symbolism emerge through a process of discovery. Drawing on the immediacy and expressive energy of Abstract Expressionism and the atmospheric qualities of lyrical abstraction, her paintings develop through instinct, movement and response rather than predetermined compositions.

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Inspired by nature, animism, yoga and contemplative practices, Shams approaches painting as a space for exploring both visible and unseen dimensions of experience. This exploration takes form through the atmospheric abstraction of Fluid Landscapes, the fragmented figuration of Neo Embodiments and the organic forms of Botanica.

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Her artistic perspective has also been shaped by studies of yoga and meditation in the Indian Himalayas, alongside influences from Cubism and Neo-Expressionism and artists including Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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Across these bodies of work, she reflects on perception, transformation and creativity itself as a fundamental principle of existence.

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Shams has a foundational education in Fine Art, and her paintings are held in private collections internationally. She has exhibited in Sweden, Portugal, Indonesia and the United States.