About Hangama Amiri

Hangama Amiri holds an MFA from Yale University, New Haven, where she graduated in 2020 from the Painting and Printmaking Department. She received her BFA from NSCAD University, Halifax, and is a Canadian Fulbright and Post-Graduate Fellow at Yale University School of Art and Sciences. Her recent exhibitions include Reminiscences II (2024) at T293 Gallery, Rome; Circle of Friends (2024) at Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto; Quiet Resistance (2023) at Moenchehaus Museum Goslar; Rumi (2023) at Aga Khan Museum, Toronto; A Homage to Home (2023) at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield; and Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present (2023).

Amiri works predominantly in textiles to examine notions of home, as well as how gender, social norms, and larger geopolitical conflict impact the daily lives of women, both in Afghanistan and in the diaspora. Using textiles as her primary medium, Amiri searches to define, explore, and question these spaces. The figurative tendency in her work is due to her interest in the power of representation, especially of those objects that are ordinary to our everyday life, such as a passport, a vase, or celebrity postcards.