Amanda Amour Lynx

Amanda Amour Lynx (she/they) is a queer, Two Spirit, mixed Mi’kmaw interdisciplinary artist, facilitator, and curator currently living in Guelph, Ontario. Lynx was born and grew up in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) and is a member of Wagmatcook First Nation. Lynx received a BFA from OCAD University in drawing and painting, minoring in Indigenous visual culture. Indigenous storywork and socially engaged practices that explore healing and re-narrating trauma are a focus in Lynx’s practice. Their art-making is a hybrid of traditional approaches with new media and digital arts. Lynx engages with an experimental process involving beadwork, textiles, and regalia-making combined with contemporary digital practices, sculpture, installation, performance, sound art, painting, zine-making, and alternative mediums. Guided by the Mi’kmaq principles netukulimk (reciprocity) and etuaptmumk (two-eyed seeing), Lynx’s artistic practice discusses land and relationality, environmental issues, navigating systems and societal structures, sexuality, cultural and gender identity, Indigenous (L’nui’smk) language resurgence, and quantum and spiritual multiplicities.