Afrooz Partovi is an artist-architect who explores intangible dimensions of time and space through immersive technologies and time-based media. Her work engages absences as vessels for tracing what has been forgotten, erased, or transformed into nonexistence. Digital realms serve as both medium and metaphor in this exploration, challenging the primacy of physicality as the definitive marker of presence. Her practice investigates how the recontextualization of absence within digital environments can uncover deeper narratives of resistance and resilience.
Afrooz earned her master’s degree in architecture from Iran University of Science and Technology in 2020 and completed her second master’s degree in fine arts at Carnegie Mellon University in 2026. She is the co-founder of Unche Studio, a collaborative practice exploring the thresholds between art, design, architecture, and theory. She was awarded the Creative Research Grant from XRTC and the FRFF grant from the Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry for her recent project, Luna Park, which was exhibited at the Andy Warhol Museum in March–April 2026.