Amanda Shank

Amanda Shank is an arts leader, educator, writer, and generative artist working at the intersection of curatorial strategy, creative producing, and interdisciplinary art-making.

As a producer, curator, and creative collaborator, Amanda has commissioned, developed, and produced ambitious works alongside world-renowned artists and institutions. She has collaborated with organizations including Pomegranate Arts and CalArts Center for New Performance (CNP), bringing major contemporary projects to audiences at venues such as REDCAT, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), MoMA, Hauser & Wirth, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, and STUDIO teatrgaleria.

With origins in playwriting and literature, Amanda’s textual roots have evolved into a deeply tactile studio practice. Moving beyond the boundaries of a fixed stage, her practice explores how text, image, and ritual fuse to create visceral, dimensional performance experiences. Since 2018, this work has centered on hand-generating limited-edition artist books that function as physical vessels for intimate exchange and performative mapping. Through textual-photographic scores and site-responsive installations, her work investigates the fluidity of contemporary performance, activating both domestic environments and cultural spaces through a distinctly poetic, interdisciplinary lens. Her projects have been developed with or presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Hammer Museum, the National New Play Network, and PROTOTYPE, among others, and her writing for performance has been published nationally and translated internationally.

Amanda holds a BFA in Writing, Literature & Publishing from Emerson College and an MFA in Writing for Performance from CalArts.