Armita Raafat is a New York-based sculptor and installation artist working with themes of architectural transfiguration and hybridity. She got her BFA from Al-Zahra University in Iran and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Notably, she has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, HORSEANDPONY Fine Arts , Berlin, and Al-Zahra University, Tehran among others. She received the Peter S. Reed Foundation grant for sculpture and a NYFA fellowship for Sculpture/Crafts and has been in residence at the LMCC swing space and AIM at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
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