Amanda Kerdahi

Artist Bio

Amanda Kerdahi, a 2023 Creative Capital awardee, is a polymedia artist and vinyl DJ working with sound, video, installation, and performance to examine object-based visual culture through the lens of a queer Egyptian American perspective. Her work explores tensions between coveted and discarded possessions, drawing parallels to migration and resistance. Kerdahi has exhibited at Raw Material (Dakar), Contemporary Image Collective (Cairo), and Queer Lisboa Film Festival (Lisbon). She is an artist in residence at Lawndale Art Center (2025-26) and previously received a grant from the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (2014) for Filtered Conversations at Round Table, as well as Creative Capital for Tankugbe Incubation Lab as part of eo Studio. In 2018, she co-curated Topophilia, a video art exhibition featuring sixteen international artists in an abandoned farmhouse in Nees, Denmark. Her DJ events center intersectional, multilingual, queer, and diasporic sounds. She has co-organized events in Cairo including Pop Up on the Nile, Where You At?, and Pan African Space Station. Currently, Kerdahi co-hosts Bibty, a femme-centered SWANA dance party and lounge in Houston, TX. She holds a BFA in Digital Media and a BS in Psychology from the University of Houston, and an MFA from the University of Plymouth, UK.

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