Amanda Amour-Lynx

Amanda Amour Lynx is a Two Spirit, neurodivergent urban L’nu-Scottish interdisciplinary artist and facilitator currently living in Guelph, Ontario and member of Wagmatcook First Nation. Their art combines traditional l’nu’k approaches, contemporary painting with new media and digital arts guided by Mi’kmaq cosmology, star stories, ecological knowledges, gender identity and language resurgence.

Amour-Lynx’s recent projects include Spark Indigenous (2023), a collaboration with Meta and Slow Studies Creative, an augmented reality creator accelerator that amplifies Indigenous cultural expression and storytelling through using emerging technology and AR. Virtual Beginner Two Spirit Regalia Making Skills (2021-2023) with Indigenous Youth Roots, a program for Indigiqueer, two spirit and LGBT+ youth providing access to regalia making workshops, genderfluid ceremonial teachings and pow wow culture rooted in peer-led community and cultural practices. Their curatorial projects include 2S Digital Constellations (2023) a short project incubator and augmented reality virtual exhibit highlighting the works of emerging two spirit textile-based artists using new media and Shapeshifters (2019) exhibit at Beaver Hall Gallery (Toronto) part of the annual Bi+ Arts Festival, featuring Two Spirit artists in dialogue with the Bi+ festival showcase. Their writing was published as part of grunt gallery’s Together Apart anthology (2020), and revue esse (2020). Lynx worked as program assistant at Xpace Cultural Centre, an artist-run centre and cultural programming hub in Toronto from 2016-2018. Their artwork has been featured in gallery spaces, festivals and publications nationally.