Native Iranian Roya Amigh earned her MFA in painting from Boston University, in 2012. Roya has shown her work in academic and public venues from Korea to Greece to the US, including Brooklyn; Boston; Lincoln, Nebraska; New York City; Providence, and Wellesley, Massachusetts. She has had residencies in Art Omi, Ghent, New York; MASS MoCA, North Adams; and The Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York, among others. She received the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Drawing and Printmaking, in 2020, and Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant, in 2022.