Kia is an Iranian-Australian contemporary artist born in south-west Iran and lived his adulthood in the city of Isfahan, also known as the cultural capital of Iran. Having fled home at the age of 25 and after spending seventeen months in Istanbul in order to obtain his status as a refugee, Kia settled in Melbourne, Australia in feb 2012. From there, he continued his involvements to be part of the restoration of democracy in Iran while forging his new life as a queer artist working in multidisciplinary fields around identity and home.

In 2016 he finished his study in film from Swinburne university of technology and his background in photography and music skills has been lifted in the Victorian College of Arts. Kia explores identity dynamics as patterns, materials coalescing and conflicting. The subjects in his work reveal the grit in creating home in unfamiliar environments, raising issues and statements around identity, a theme not unfamiliar to an Iranian-born refugee.

His work comes as a product of his pursuit in merging the aspects of his heritage with his newfound freedom. His journey from guilt to freedom and early experiences in Iran was a source of artistic inspiration which he drew on, rather than blame or wish it was different. He has embraced his experience and recognised his growth as a free being. Kia is a multicultural, queer, stateless artist where the concept of home, for him, over time becomes an ever-expanding proposition or idea. His practice also provoked an inquiry into the duality of things such as life inside and outside of the home.

Freedom of thought, of movement and of expression had a significant impact on his art practice, he has discovered vitality and a voice - both challenging and rewarding. As Kia grew up he began to understand the contrast between the inside and outside world in Iran, the inside or home where one is able to express themselves and the outside world where the freedom of the individual has been affected by the islamic regime in Iran. Experiencing these two worlds started to shape him as a person who inherited a broken and confused religious land from the previous generation. Freedom of expression is the goal and drive for any artist, even more so if the environment within which the art is conceived is restrictive, even dangerous. It was this experience and force within his life which continues to drive his practice and gives it purpose.