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. 

Afruz works with materials ranging from steel, fiberglass and chain, to glass, alabaster and light.  Light is the constant in Afruz’s work, a material she uses to activate our sense of the sacred. Her delicate, abstract sculptures refer to a complex array of architectural sources: the arabesques of Islamic mosques, the angular shapes of Gothic churches, the ornamentations of Manhattan Art Deco buildings, and the urban landscape of Brooklyn. 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. 

Afruz’s sculptural installations, based on the interplay between light and shadow, have been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Afruz’s outdoor works have been exhibited in the Hudson Valley’s Art OMI and in Chicago’s Jane Addams Memorial Park and her recent public project Sky Carpet is on permanent display at the Kahlil Gibran Academy across from the Brooklyn Academy of Music. 

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 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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