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Amrita Hepi (Bundjulung/Ngapuhi Territories) is a multidisciplinary artist & choreographer based in Naarm (Melbourne) 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 Dance College & Alvin Ailey NYC. A critically acclaimed artist she has twice been the winner of the people's choice award from the Keir Choreographic Award, was a Forbes 30 under 30 for artist, and has shown and been commissioned nationally and internationally. 

At present in 2024 her video work Scripture for a smokescreen: Dolphin House has been acquired by NGV (National Gallery Victoria) and is showing in Wuddha Murra as part of the permanent first nations collection, she is also about to tour her solo performance work RINSE to FTA in Montreal and PS21 in NYC in April/May 2024. Whilst working on two new commissions in her studio in Phra Khanong. 

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

Photo (c) Amelia J Dowd