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Armita Raafat is an Iranian-American artist born in Chicago and raised in Iran. she earned a BFA from Al-Zahra University in Tehran and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Raafat's works demonstrate a collaborative sensibility between cultures, movements, and crafts. Blending seemingly disparate forms and materials— such as Muqarnas from historic Islamic architecture and subway tiles from New York, where she lives and works— she liberates structure and material from their static associations. By utilizing found and hand-crafted objects interchangeably, Raafat opens up the potential for multiple reads, exploring the interplay of opposites through material metaphor.

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Armita Raafat has exhibited nationally and internationally including at the MCA Chicago, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, the Noyes Museum of Art, New Jersey; High Noon, New York; Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York; Dorsky Gallery, New York; Art in Buildings; New York and Florida; HORSEANDPONY Fine Arts, Berlin; and Al-Zahra University, Tehran. Raafat received the Peter S. Reed Foundation grant for Sculpture and a NYFA fellowship for Crafts/Sculpture. She has been in residence at LMCC Swing Space, AIM at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Winter Workspace at Wave Hill, and Workspace Program at Dieu Donné. Her work has been written about in publications such as Art in America, the Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Arte Fuse, artcritical, and others. She currently has a studio with the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York.