Amanda Parmer

Amanda Parmer

Ph.D. student, Media, Culture and Communications, New York University

Amanda Parmer is a doctoral student in Media, Culture and Communications at New York University and an alumnus of the Whitney Independent Study Program. In 2014 she inaugurated parmer — a space for exhibitions, programming and writing that focuses on queer, feminist strategies and post-colonial analysis. From 2018-2019 she worked as the Director of Programs at Independent Curators International and previously served as the inaugural Curator of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. 

She has presented exhibitions, programs, and events for e-flux; the New School; the New Museum; The New York Armory and Volta Shows; The Kitchen; as well as Cleopatra’s, Brooklyn and Berlin. She has held residencies with the Danish Arts Council International Research Programme in Copenhagen and Møn, the Abrons Art Center in New York as well as the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Høvikodden, Norway. 

She is a contributing writer for Art in America, art&education, Artforum and BOMB. She has also taught as a lecturer at The New School and Rhode Island School of Design.

Working Group Affiliations

Zip Code Memory Project: Practices of Justice and Repair, Social Engagement Project