
Spiral, 2016
Aluminum radiator banding, base metal chain
72 x 4 x 4 in each / 182.9 x 10.2 x 10.2 cm each
Lamentation, 2016
Steel, light
83 x 31.5 x 12 in / 210.8 x 80 x 30.5 cm
Night Paintings, Series II, 2016
Steel, light
61 x 31.5 x 12 in, 59 x 31.5 x 12 in, 59 x 31.5 x 12 in
154.9 x 80 x 30.5 cm, 149.9 x 80 x 30.5 cm, 149.9 x 80 x 30.5 cm
All That is Solid…, 2016
Steel, chain, light
Dimensions variable
Veins (Malakbel), 2015
Steel, base metal chain, light
168 x 108 x 60 in / 426.7 x 274.3 x 152.4 cm
Nameless, 2014
Steel, wenge, fiberglass mesh, chain, ultra-suede, invisible thread
168 x 132 x 96 in / 426.7 x 335.3 x 243.8 cm
The Anchoress, 2014
Steel, chain and LED lights
168 x 192 x 168 in / 426.7 x 487.7 x 426.7 cm
My House, My Tomb, 2015
Steel, fiberglass mesh, chain, and LED lights
168 x 90 x 70 in each / 426.7 x 228.6 x 177.8 cm each
Forest (Aglibol), 2015
Steel, fiberglass mesh, chain, and LED lights
168 x 104 x 60 in / 426.7 x 264.2 x 152.4 cm
Afruz Amighi (b 1974, Iran) is the inaugural recipient of the Jameel Prize for Middle Eastern Contemporary art awarded by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 2009. Raised in New York by Jewish and Zoroastrian parents, she completed her BA in political science at Barnard College at Columbia University, before going on to complete her MFA at New York University. Amighi has exhibited her work in the United States, London and the Middle East.
In 2011, she was granted the fellowship in sculpture by the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2013, Amighi’s work was commissioned for the 55th Venice Biennale. Her work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and The Devi Foundation, among others. She is currently working on a solo exhibition with Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai which will open in May of 2016. Amighi currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.