Amrita Hepi - Photo David Collins

Amrita Hepi - Photo David Collins

Amrita Hepi (Bundjulung/Ngapuhi Territories) is a multidisciplinary artist & choreographer based in Naarm and Bangkok.

Her interest as an artist is in the idea of archive; particularly in relation to the body and how it is organized by ancestry/people/events and environment.

By coalescing fact and fiction,memoir and ethnography, the local and the singular into the performance/art work she makes.

Amrita trained at NAISDA & Alvin Ailey NYC. A critically acclaimed artist she has twice been the winner of the people choice award for the Keir Choreographic Award, was a Forbes 30 under 30 for artist, and has shown and been commissioned nationally and internationally.

Amrita is a Triad member of performance company APHIDS, on the board of directors and artistic associate for RISING festival and part of theArtistic Associate group for STRUT dance. Her commitment to collaboration and kinship are key tenets to her practice.

Exhibition/Performance credits include:

Serepentine UK (DO IT)
National Gallery of Victoria
Sydney Opera House, Sydney

Kluge Ruhe Gallery, Virginia, USA

Art Gallery of NSW, AUS

Impulstanz, Vienna

Kennedy Centre, Washington DC USA

Theaterformen, Germany

Next Wave Festival, Melbourne

Perth Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA)

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia

The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne,

Carriageworks, Sydney

TEDx, Sydney

Banff Centre Canada,

Art Central Hong Kong,

DARK MOFO Tasmania

Le Mans, Le Espal France

Cement Fondu, Sydney, Aus

The Lock Up Newcastle, Aus

ACE Open S.A, AUS