Afruz Amighi

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Afruz Amighi
Born1974 (age 47–48)
Tehran, Iran
Alma materBarnard College,
New York University
Occupationsculptor, installation artist
AwardsJameel Prize (2009)
Websitewww.afruzamighi.com

Afruz Amighi (born 1974) is an Iranian-born American sculptor and installation artist.[1] Her work has been exhibited in the United States, London and in the Middle East. She is based in Brooklyn, New York.[1][2]

Early life[]

Amighi was born in 1974 in Tehran, Iran, to a Jewish American mother and a Zoroastrian Iranian father.[3] She was raised in New York City.[3] Amighi graduated from Barnard College with a B.A. degree in 1997 in political science; before completing an M.F.A. degree in 2007 at New York University.[4][5]

Career[]

In 2009, she was awarded the Jameel Prize for Middle Eastern contemporary art by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.[1][6]

In 2011, she received the fellowship in sculpture by the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2013, her work was exhibited at the 55th Venice Biennale. Amighi's art is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[6] the Houston Museum of Fine Art,[7] the Victoria and Albert Museum,[8] The Newark Museum of Art, and the Devi Foundation, and others.

More recently in 2017, a series of Amighi's feminist sculptures were presented at the Sophia Contemporary Gallery, London.[9] In 2018 the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, TN presented her first one-person museum exhibition.[10]

She served as artist-in-residence in partnership with the Intersections program at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.[11]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Shadow Shift: Afruz Amighi". The Seen. April 17, 2018. Retrieved 2021-09-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ Schrobsdorff, Susanna (September 20, 2021). "The Quietly Rebellious Art of Iranian Women and What We Can Learn From Them". Time. Retrieved 2021-09-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ a b Kalsi, Jyoti (May 25, 2016). "Reflections on belonging and displacement". Gulf News. Al Nisr Publishing, LLC. Retrieved 2021-09-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ "V&A Announces Afruz Amighi as Winner of the Jameel Prize 2009". ArtDaily. July 9, 2009. Retrieved 2021-09-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ "Afruz Amighi, VASE". The School of Art Visiting Artists and Scholars Series, University of Arizona. 2015. Retrieved 2021-09-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ a b "Still Garden 2011". The MET 150. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  7. ^ "EMuseum". Choice Reviews Online. 39 (5): 39–2871-39-2871. 2002-01-01. doi:10.5860/choice.39-2871. ISSN 0009-4978.
  8. ^ "Hanging, Amighi, Afruz". V and A Collections. 2020-03-07. Retrieved 2020-03-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ "Afruz Amighi's Multifaceted Feminist Sculptures Project a Sense of the Precariousness of Our Ideals—See Them Here". artnet News. 2017-12-25. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  10. ^ BWW News Desk. "Frist Art Museum Presents First Solo Museum Exhibition Of Iranian American Artist Afruz Amighi". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  11. ^ "Afruz Amighi | Biography | Athr Gallery". www.athrart.com. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
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