ROYA AMIGH - BIOGRAPHY
Iranian/American, b. 1981 in Mahshahr, Iran, lives and works in Boston, MA
EDUCATION
2012 MFA Boston University, Boson, MA, USA
2010 MFA, Central Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2007 BFA, Science and Culture University, Tehran, Iran
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 FiveMyles gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Like a Tale We Hear, Iron Tail Gallery, Lincoln, NE
2016 The Abrasion, West 10th Window, Art-In-Buildings, New York, NY
2015 Brookline Commission for the Arts, Brookline Town Hall, Brookline, MA
2012 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
Commonwealth Gallery, Boston, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 The Un-Heroic Act. Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the US, Shiva Gallery at John Jay College, CUNY, New York, NY
2017 The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA (forthcoming)
2016 DMZ Pilgrimage International Art Festival, South Korea
Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY
The Scollay Square Gallery, Boston, MA
Union Arts Center, Sparkill, NY
The Fine Arts Center, Hot Springs, AR
Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2015 Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
The Record Company, Boston, MA
2014 Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
Blue Sage Center For the Arts, Paonia, CO
2013 Sloane House Gallery (printmaking), Boston, MA
2012 Print show, Sherman Gallery, Boston, MA
2011 Sherman Gallery, Boston, MA
Tribal Art, Hamill Gallery, Boston, MA
Sloane House Gallery (painting), Boston, MA
COLLECTIONS
- private collection, New York City and Paris
- Art OMI, Ghent, NY
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2017 Jamaica Center for Art & Learning's First Friday artist talk, Jamaica, NY (forthcoming)
MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2016 Art Omi, Ghent, NY
The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
Northwestern Oklahoma State University, OK
2015 ArtHub Residency, Kingman, AZ
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT – with Vermont Studio Center Fellowship
Drop Forge and Tool Residency, Hudson, NY
BetterArts Residency, Redwood, NY
2014 Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside, Troy, NY
The League Residency at Vyt, Hudson Valley, NY - with Ruth Katzman Scholarship
Can Serrat Art Residency, Barcelona, Spain
Elsewhere Studios Art Residency, Paonia, CO – with Elsewhere Studios Art Residency Grant
2010-12 Constantine Alajalov Scholarship, Boston University, Boston, MA
REVIEWS
2017
- How to Create a Butterfly, by Seph Rodney, in: Hyperallergic, NYC, Aug. 25, 2017
- Artist blends Iranian stories, thread and paper, by L. Kent Wolgamott, in: Lincoln Journal Star, NE, Jan. 15, 2017
2016
- Get to Know: Roya Amigh, interview by Eliana Blechman, in: Art-in-Buildings Blog, New York, NY, 2016, and the exhibition documentation
- Roya Amigh, in: Art Reveal Magazine, London, UK, no. 19, Aug. 14, 2016, pp. 10-15
2012