Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya

Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya is a Brooklyn-based transdisciplinary artist whose practice spans textile, sculpture, painting, and installation. Informed by ethnographic research, ancestral memory, and cultural ritual, her work explores how displacement, absence, and inherited trauma can be transformed through processes of making. Drawing from her Thai and Indonesian heritage, Phingbodhipakkiya works with hand-knotted rope, reclaimed textiles, talismans, and everyday materials to create tactile, intimate works that honor unseen labor and diasporic resilience.

Her studio practice centers the embodied knowledge of immigrant communities and the quiet power of women’s labor, engaging materials as vessels for remembrance and restoration. Through repetition, touch, and the language of fiber, she constructs poetic spaces where memory lives on in form and gesture.

Phingbodhipakkiya’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Brooklyn Museum, the Bangkok Art and Culture Center, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She is a 2024 New York City Artadia Awardee and a 2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Visual Arts. From 2023 to 2025, she served on the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, advising the White House on cultural policy that centers care, equity, and the essential role of artists in shaping collective futures.