About

Iranian artist Roya Amigh earned her MFA in painting from Boston University in 2012. Roya has shown in academic and public venues from Korea to Greece to the U.S., including Brooklyn; Boston; Lincoln, Nebraska; New York City; Providence; and Wellesley, Massachusetts. She has had residencies at MacDowell, Art Omi, MASS MoCA, and The Millay Colony for the Arts, among other places. She was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Drawing and Printmaking in 2020 and a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2022.

Through the intersection of the women's movement and individual experiences, she is creating bridges among individuals and raising questions about our identity and social history through the lens of gender, sexuality, and class. In her work, she uses fragmentation to encourage viewers to reflect on the body and its most intimate parts, inviting them to contemplate the sense of fragmentation. 

By depicting various women's movements, she establishes ties to societies frequently marginalized as 'the other,' shedding light on the cross-cultural, patriarchal persecution of women. She breaks down concepts and experiences into smaller components that can reunite and occupy space, resounding boldly through the voices of women.

Photo credit to Ross Willows, OMI Residency