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NICELLE BEAUCHENE GALLERY
AFRUZ AMIGHI
Lives and works in New York
EDUCATION
2007
MFA, New York University, New York
2002
Summer Studio Program, School of Visual Arts, New York
1997
BA, Political Science, Barnard College at Columbia University, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
Far From God, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York
Far From God, The Fields Sculpture Park, OMI International Arts Center, Ghent,
New York
2012
Suspended City, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2011
The Hidden State, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York
2010
Angels in Combat, Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde, Dubai
Cages, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
New Ways of Seeing: Beyond Culture, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2014
The Language of Human Consciousness, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Past Tradition, Curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt, Exhibit 320, New Delhi,
India
2013
Love Me, Love Me Not, Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its neighbors, The
55th International Art Exhibition—la Biennale di Venezia, curated by Dina NasserKhadivi, Venice, Italy
The Silver Shore, James Graham & Sons, New York
2012
Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape, and Islamic Art, Museum of
Arts and Design, NY, traveling to; The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach,
FL, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, University of
Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, Los
Angeles Municiple Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Honolulu Museum of Art,
Honolulu, HI
Making Camp, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
That Sinking Sense of Wonder, Curated by Jesse Bransford, South First Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY
Contemporary Iranian Art in the Permanent Collection, The Hagop Kevorkian Fund
Special Exhibitions Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2010
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Structures Within an Intervention, Guild Art Gallery, New York
Tehran-New York, LTMH Gallery, New York
2009
Jameel Prize Exhibition, V&A Museum, London; traveling to
The National Museum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; The National Museum in
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2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
Damascus, Beiteddine Palace, Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization, UAE;
Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; La Villa des Arts, Casablanca, Morocco
Just a Ghostly Paper Sigh, 31 Grand, New York
MFA Thesis Show: Class of 2007, Washington Square East Gallery, New York
Seven, ALJIRA Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
Please Touch, G.A.S.P Gallery, Boston, MA
Dedicated to N. Khan, Helen & Martin Kimmel Center, New York
Young Americans, Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Winston Salem, NC
The Beautiful Ones, 31 Grand, Brooklyn, NY
Sleep, Cave Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Albury, Vanessa. Afruz Amighi: Far From God, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery,
Artpulse, No.19, Vo.5, 2014
Kats, Anna. ‘Love Me, Love Me Not’, Modern Painters, September 2014
Dessanay, Margherita. Going East Newer Horizons of Tradition, Elephant
Magazine, Summer Issue 2013
Odoardi, Andrea. 55th Venice Biennale Exhibition in Azerbaijan, Sopra(t)tutto, June
1, 2013
‘Love Me Love Me Not’ Installation in Venice, Zimbio, May 29, 2013
Cezar, Aaron. Central Asia reveals its complexities, The Art Newspaper, June 6,
2013
Newman, Michelle Alexis. The Political Sculptures of Afruz Amighi,
Beautiful/Decay Magazine, March 11, 2013
Taghavi, Roshanak. Iranian Art That Transcends Politics, AL Moniter, September
22, 2012
Rosenberg, Karen. Treasures of an Heiress From a Personal Paradise, New York
Times, September 6, 2012
Willows, Pete. Iran artists featured in metropolitan museum installation, Bikyamasr,
March 7, 2012
Frank, Peter. The Hidden State, Huffington Post, December 16, 2011
Behiery, Valerie. Afruz Amighi’s Captivating Patterns of Driving Intensity, IAM 06I,
June 2010
Wallace-Thompson, Anna. The Allegory of the Cave, Canvas, January 2011
Barrett, Nyree. Persian Prowess, Time Out Dubai, October 14-20, 2010
Yusuf, Muhammad. Volcano Beneath Snow, The Gulf Today, October 21, 2010
Kalsi, Jyoti. Light-Colored Statements, The Gulf News, October 15, 2010
Levy, Michelle. Beauty Ensnared, ArtSlant.com, January 31, 2010
V&A Announces Afruz Amighi as Winner of Jameel Prize 2009, ArtDaily.org, July 9,
2009
Jameel Prize seeks the next star of Islamic Art, Guardian.co.uk, July 7, 2009
Deepa, A. Finding Inspiration in Islamic Traditions, IslamOnline.net, July 2009
Afruz Amighi Wins Jameel Prize for her '1001 Pages,’ IslamToday.com, July 12,
2009
Art: Afruz Amighi Wins the Inaugural Jameel Prize, Kazbah.net, July 9, 2009
Boucher, Katie. Contemporary art, Islamic Tradition,The National, July 8, 2009
PRIZES/AWARDS
2009
Jameel Prize Winner, V&A, London
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
V&A Museum, London
Devi Art Foundation, New Dehli
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Bristol Museum, United Kingdom
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
YARAT Foundation, Azerbaijan
Kirin Nadar Museum of Art, Dehli