Amrita Hepi (b. 1989, Townsville of Bundjulung/Ngapuhi territories) is first nations artist and choreographer working primarily in video, installation and performance. Her interest as an artist is in ideas surrounding indigenous futurism and the body as an archive - how...
Read MoreAmrita Hepi (b. 1989, Townsville of Bundjulung/Ngapuhi territories) is first nations artist and choreographer working primarily in video, installation and performance. Her interest as an artist is in ideas surrounding indigenous futurism and the body as an archive - how it is re-organized by people/events/history. Beyond archives being documentation, or a bureaucratic entity. By coalescing fact and fiction, memoir and ethnography, the local and the singular into the performance/art work she makes. She is represented by Anna Schwartz gallery.
Amrita trained at NAISDA & Alvin Ailey NYC. A critically acclaimed artist she has twice been the winner of the people's choice award from the Keir Choreographic Award, was part of the Forbes 30 under 30 for artists, and has shown and been commissioned nationally and internationally at places such as the Serpentine (with Kaldor public art projects + DO it) , The National Gallery of Victoria, The Art Gallery of NSW and performance festivals such as Fusebox Austin Texas, FTA Montreal and Festival TheaterFormen Germany . At present her work Scripture for a smokescreen: Dolphin House is showing at Samstag Gallery (and has
just been acquired by NGV ahead of it being shown there in October) Straight Torque: Twin Series has opened this month at Anna Schwartz Gallery, and Soothsayer Serenades is circulating at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art NYC, ahead of touring performance work RINSE North America in early 2024.
