Amanda with her abstract acrylic paintings at Visual Fringe, Hamilton Fringe Festival, 2024
Amanda with her abstract acrylic paintings at Visual Fringe, Hamilton Fringe Festival, 2024
Amanda Tkaczyk (1989) is an artist based in Ontario, Canada. She combines bold expressive abstract acrylic paintings, technology interactives, accessible poetry, and performance art to explore themes of loss, belonging, grief, and spontaneity. Her practice is often informed by her academic and professional background in psychology and applied artificial intelligence (Master's of AI, Queen's University, 2021).
Since starting her practice in Summer 2024, her exhibitions and performances include: Third Shift Contemporary Arts Festival (Saint John, NB), Wheat City Nuit Blanche (Brandon, MB), Hillside Festival (Guelph, ON), Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Hamilton Fringe Festival, Helson Gallery (Georgetown, ON), and Art Gallery of Burlington. In 2026, she was selected as a Performance and Extended Reality IBPOC Fellow with Single Thread Theatre.
Her upcoming projects include her first solo exhibition of visual works at the Cambridge Art Galleries (Cambridge, ON) and her first curatorial project in November 2026. She is currently working on two new technology-mediated performance art projects that will premiere at the Ottawa Fringe Festival in June 2026 and Hamilton Fringe Festival in July 2026.
Her early career work has been supported by the Ontario Arts Council and Government of Ontario (2026), Region of Waterloo Artist Microgrant (2024) and an Arts Fellowship with ArtsPond (2025) made possible with funding from Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Government of Ontario.
Dimensions of Opacity is being created with support from the Ontario Arts Council.