Hangama Amiri received her BFA (Major in Fine Arts) from NSCAD University in Halifax NS (2012) and was a Canadian Fulbright and Post-Graduate Fellow at Yale University School of Art and Sciences in New Haven, Connecticut (2015-2016). She has exhibited her paintings nationally and internationally, recently in New York City, Toronto, France, Italy and London (UK). In 2015, her painting Island of Dreams won a runner-up honourable mention at RBC Canadian Painting Competition. This fall she will be attending Yale School of Art to complete her MFA program in Painting/Printmaking in New Haven, CT.