Armita Raafat is a New York-based sculptor and installation 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. She 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; 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, artcritical, and others. She currently has a studio with the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York.

Armita Raafat

2022 The Architect's Newspaper www.archpaper.com/2022/06/exhibition-ch…

2022 Installation at Children's Museum of Manhattan as part of the Inside Art: Create, Climb, Collaborate Exhibition.

2022 Group Exhibition,Trade of the Season at Marquee Projects.
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2022 Conversation with Material For the Arts Director of Education
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2021 Brooklyn Rail, On the spot with Armita Raafat
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2021 Interview with ART SPIEL
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2021 Dieu Donne Workspace program Residency
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2021 The New York Foundation for the Arts, benefit auction. THE IMMIGRANT STORY: A VISUAL TELLING. May 1st-May16
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2021 Interview with Hilma's Ghost Collective
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Untitled, 2019