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