Afruz Amighi

Afruz Amighi was born in Teheran, Iran in 1974 and immigrated to the United States in 1979. Her family arrived in the midst of the hostage crisis when many Iranians were pretending to be Italian, French or Pakistani. Discouraged from applying to art school, she studied political science at Barnard College and immersed herself in the history of the Middle East.

A few years after graduating, Amighi gravitated back towards the arts and taught herself how to make mosaics. She enrolled in the summer painting program at the School of Visual Arts and went on to study sculpture with Lorrie Goulet at the Art Students League for two years. Currently, she resides in Astoria and has a studio in the Crane Street Building in Long Island City. The exhibition “Sleep” is Amighi’s first solo show.