Email Address: roya.amigh@gmail.com
Education
MFA, Boston University, Boston, USA 2012
MFA, Central Azad University, Tehran, Iran, 2010
BFA, Science and Culture University, Tehran, Iran, 2007
Grants/ Awards
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2022
First place award for 2021 PAPERWORKS at B.J. SPOKE GALLERY, Juror: Sewon Kang, Huntington, NY
First place prize for 2021 National Prize Show at Cambridge Art Association, Juror: Alice Gray Stites, Cambridge, MA
Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Drawing, 2020
Blanche E. Colman Award, finalist, 2019
Matched savings grant, Assets for artists, MASS MoCA, MA, 2018
Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Fellowship, 2016
Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Vermont, 2015
Ruth Katzman Scholarship, NY, 2014
Joan Mitchell Foundation Award Nominee, 2012
Constantine Alajalov Scholarship, Merit-Based Award, Boston University, 2010-2012
Residencies
MacDowell Residency, Peterborough, NH, 2023
Assets for artists, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, 2017
Art Omi, Ghent, NY, 2016
The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, 2016
Northwestern Oklahoma State University, OK, 2016
ArtHub Residency, Kingman, AZ, 2015
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 2015
Drop Forge and Tool Residency, Hudson, NY, 2015
BetterArts Residency, Redwood, NY, 2015
Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside, Troy, NY, 2014
The League Residency at Vyt, Hudson Valley, NY, 2014
Can Serrat Art Residency, Barcelona, Spain, 2014
Elsewhere Studios Art Residency, Paonia, Colorado, 2014
Solo exhibition
Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, November 2023
Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, August 2021
Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA, November 2019
The Hollister Gallery, the Sorenson Center for the Arts, Babson College, MA, 2018
FiveMyles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
Like a tale we hear, Iron Tail Gallery, Lincoln, NE, 2017
West 10th Window, Art-In-Buildings, NYC, NY, 2016
Brookline Commission for the Arts, Brookline Town Hall, MA, 2015
Group exhibition
Deeply Rooted: Faith in Reproductive Justice, Curator: Caron Tabb, Kniznick Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 2023
Iran: Deciphering Violence and Resistance, Curator: Illya Mousavijad, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH, 2023
Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, 2023
Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA, 2022
B.J. SPOKE GALLERY, Huntington, NY, 2021
Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, 2021
Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA, 2020
Room83spring, Watertown, MA, 2019
Kosmos Kulture, Zurich, Switzerland, 2019
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, 2018
Yangpyeong Art Museum, Gyeonggi-do, the Republic of Korea, 2018
Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Rethymno, Greece, 2018
Brown University, Providence, RI, 2017-2018
The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, 2017-2018
Periphery Space Gallery, Pawtucket, RI, 2017
DMZ Pilgrimage International Art Festival, South Korea, 2016
Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY, 2016
The Scollay Square Gallery, Boston, MA, 2016
Union Arts Center, Sparkill, NY, 2016
The Fine Arts Center, Hot Springs, AR, 2016
Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY, 2016
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, 2015
The Record Company, Boston, MA, 2015
Macy Gallery, Columbia University, NYC, NY, 2014
Blue Sage Center For the Arts, Paonia, CO, 2014
Sloane House Gallery (printmaking), Boston, MA, 2013
808 Gallery, Boston, MA, 2012
The print show, Sherman Gallery, MA,2012
Sherman Gallery, Boston, MA, 2011
Tribal Art, Hamill Gallery, Boston, MA, 2011
Sloane House Gallery (painting), Boston, MA, 2011
Selected Bibliography
Finding Art Miles Away From the Expected, Seph Rodney, in The New York Times, Printed: Feb 26, 2021
Resilient Fragilities, interview by Maryam Momeni, in Asymptote Magazine, fall 2019 issue
COLLECTIVE IDENTITY: MUSA CONNECTS OUR COMMON NARRATIVE, in Artscope Magazine, MA, July-August 2019
How to create a butterfly, Seph Rodney, in Hyperallergic, Brooklyn, NY, August 25, 2017
Imagination meets memory, Elizabeth Michelman, in Artscope Magazine, MA, March 2nd, 2017
Get to Know: Roya Amigh, interview by Eliana Blechman, in Art-in-Buildings Blog, New York, NY, 2016, and the exhibition documentation
Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Rethymno, Greece
private collection, New York City and Paris
Art OMI, Ghent, NY
Academic and public venues
Independent artist contractor, Project and research assistant at Harvard University, 2022
- Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran
Cultural Ties Panel at Surface Design Association, 2022
Visiting artist lecturer, Visual and Performing Arts Department, Merrimack College, 2021
Visiting artist lecturer, Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt), Boston, MA, 2020
Visiting artist lecturer, Oberlin College Art Department, Oberlin, OH, 2020
Museums and the Travel Ban, A panel discussion presented by the New England Museum Association, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, 2017
Visiting artist lecturer, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, 2016
Artist lecturer, English Department, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Alva, OK, 2016