Afruz Amighi's work spans large-scale installation, sculpture, poetry, performance, and drawing. Her work is an inquiry into the relationship between light and material in an effort to create physical and mental spaces of intimacy and solace. Her delicate, abstract sculptures refer to a complex array of architectural sources: the meandering arabesques of Islamic mosques, the angular shapes of Gothic churches, the ornamentations of Manhattan Art Deco buildings, and the urban landscape of Brooklyn, among others. Afruz uses architecture to investigate the way in which humans across cultures and ages build structures that reflect common ideals and aesthetic values, despite the complexity and precariousness of society. Her sculptural installations, based on the interplay between light and shadow, have been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.​

Afruz is the inaugural recipient of the Jameel Prize for Middle Eastern Contemporary art, awarded by the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in sculpture. Her work was commissioned for the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and her first solo museum exhibition, The Presence of Your Absence is Everywhere opened at the Frist Art Museum in 2018. Afruz’s Far From God has been exhibited at Art OMI’s Sculpture Park in the Hudson Valley and in Chicago’s Addams Memorial Park. Passerbys may catch a glimpse of Afruz's first public work in glass, Sky Carpet, installed in the lobby of The Kahlil Gibran International Academy, visible to the public through the glass lobby walls after dark.

Afruz’s work is in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and The Morgan Museum & Library, among others. Afruz currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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