ARTIST BIO

Amal Amer (they/them) is a transdisciplinary storyteller, artist, writer, performer and facilitator of South West Asian and North African (SWANA) descent currently based in California. Through visual media, performance, and collective storytelling, they cultivate loving ecosystems of connection and explore the tension between rootedness and movement in diaspora. Amer’s work reinterprets symbols and stories from SWANA cosmologies, holding space for queer and trans folks to transform and heal. Weaving together magic, spirituality, desire, displacement, and state violence, their work colorfully trans*cends gender and media boundaries. Blessed with the gift of traveling between worlds, they move between organizing spaces, nightclubs, institutions, friends’ couches, and star-storied spirit and plant realms.

Amer graduated with a BA from Williams College in 2017. Their solo show, i love you like the stars, has shown online and at HATCH Workshop. They have shown across the web and have performed or shown work at USC Roski and Leiminspace in Los Angeles, YallaPunk!’s show at Vox Populi in Philadelphia, and La Mutinerie in Paris. Their work has been featured in Reconstructed Mag, Salon al Mahjar, Zafaraan, MILLE World, them, XY&Z and AWID Magazine, and on the podcast they host, Diaspora Babes. They have recently been an artist at the Coaxial Arts Foundation, the Wassaic Project, and HATCH Workshop.