Kia Zand is an interdisciplinary artist based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Drawing on his mixed Iranian inheritance, he works across analogue photography, sculpture, and sound, exploring the spaces between and within geological, cultural, and political boundaries. His work primarily explores themes of identity, queer secrecy, and how bodies and materials carry memory and knowledge.

Zand began his career as an industrial photographer and filmmaker at the National Oil and Gas Company in the south-west of Iran, a zone marked by histories of diversity and colonial footsteps. After relocating to Isfahan and later migrating to Melbourne as an asylum seeker, he completed a degree in film and a Master of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2023.