Kia Zand (b. 1985) is a multimedia artist based in Naarm, Australia. Working across image, sculpture, and sound, his practice explores queer areas of experience.

Beginning his career as an industrial photographer and filmmaker in southwestern Iran, a region marked by diverse ethnic histories and colonial legacies, his practice centres on extracted and displaced materials and on the landscapes and the bodies associated with them.

Recent work includes a kinetic installation at Rūḥ al-rūḥ – jan-e janān (WestSpace, 2025-26), constructed from Pentelic marble offcuts generated by benchtop marble factories in Victoria, Australia, and the photography series Gaze from the Bush which studies the queer body in relation to symbols of heroism and monumentality.

He holds a BA in Film from Swinburne University (2016) and a Master of Contemporary Art from the Victorian College of the Arts (2024). Zand’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and group shows, most recently Ruh-Al-Ruh at WestSpace (2025–26).