Roya Amigh

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: San Mateo, CA

Year at Millay: 2016

Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY (2024); Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2023); Grant Recipient, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY (2022); Prize Winner, 2021 National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA (2021); Award Winner, Paperworks 2021, bj spoke gallery, Huntington, NY (2021); Fellow, Drawing, Individual Fellowship, Mass Cultural Council, Boston, MA (2020); Artist-in-Residence, Studios at MASS MoCA Residency Program, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2017); Artist-in-Residence, Art OMI, Ghent, NY (2016); Artist-in-Residence, NWOSU Artist-in-Residence Program, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Alva, OK (2016); Artist-in-Residence, ArtHub Artist Residency, Kingman, AZ (2015); Artist-in-Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (2015); Artist-in-Residence, Creative Residency, Drop Forge & Tool, Hudson, NY (2015); Artist-in-Residence, betterArts Residency Program, betterArts, Redwood, NY (2015); Artist-in-Residence, Contemporary Arts Center, Woodside, Troy, NY (2014); Scholarship Recipient, Ruth Katzman Scholarship, The Art Students League, New York, NY (2014); Artist-in-Residence, The League Residency at Vyt, The Art Students League, Orangeburg, NY (2014); Artist-in-Residence, International Art Residency, Can Serrat, El Bruc, Spain (2014); Artist-in-Residence, Elsewhere Studios, Paonia, CO (2014); Nominee, Joan Mitchell Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY (2012).

Website: http://www.royaamigh.com

Roya Amigh earned her MFA in Painting from Boston University in 2012. Her work has been exhibited in academic and public venues across Korea, Greece, and the United States, including Brooklyn; Boston; Lincoln, Nebraska; Providence; and Wellesley, Massachusetts. She has participated in residencies such as MacDowell, Blue Mountain Center, Art Omi, and MASS MoCA. Roya was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Drawing and Printmaking in 2020 and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2022.