UNTITLED ART MIAMI 2024

December 4 - 8

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.