Afruz Amighi (born 1974; Persian: افروز عمیقی) 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]
Afruz Amighi | |
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افروز عمیقی | |
| Born | 1974 (age 49–50) |
| Alma mater | Barnard College, New York University |
| Occupation(s) | sculptor, installation artist |
| Awards | Jameel Prize (2009) |
| Website | www |
Early life
editAmighi 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
editIn 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. 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, 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.[when?][11]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Shadow Shift: Afruz Amighi". The Seen. April 17, 2018. Archived from the original on 2020-08-15. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
- ^ Schrobsdorff, Susanna (September 20, 2021). "The Quietly Rebellious Art of Iranian Women and What We Can Learn From Them". Time. Archived from the original on 2021-09-20. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
- ^ a b Kalsi, Jyoti (May 25, 2016). "Reflections on belonging and displacement". Gulf News. Al Nisr Publishing, LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-08-15. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
- ^ "V&A Announces Afruz Amighi as Winner of the Jameel Prize 2009". ArtDaily. July 9, 2009. Archived from the original on 2021-09-21. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
- ^ "Afruz Amighi, VASE". The School of Art Visiting Artists and Scholars Series, University of Arizona. 2015. Archived from the original on 2020-08-09. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
- ^ a b "Still Garden 2011". The MET 150. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ^ EMuseum. 2002-01-01.
- ^ "Hanging, Amighi, Afruz". V and A Collections. 2020-03-07. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ^ "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.
- ^ BWW News Desk. "Frist Art Museum Presents First Solo Museum Exhibition Of Iranian American Artist Afruz Amighi". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ^ "Afruz Amighi | Biography | Athr Gallery". www.athrart.com. Retrieved 2020-03-07.