Amadour
Amadour is an American interdisciplinary artist, musician, and writer. Their practice spans painting, songwriting, and composition, often combining geometric abstraction with orchestral pop and cultural criticism. Recognized as “The Voice of Nevada” and “The High Desert Balladeer,” Amadour's work addresses diasporic memory, queer subjectivity, and erased narratives through a perspective rooted in a Latinx experience in Nevada and the American West.
Career
Amadour's paintings, characterized by layered acrylics, gold leaf, and graphite, have been exhibited internationally with Kotaro Nukaga in Tokyo, FF Projects in Mexico, and Emma Scully Gallery in New York. They have participated in The Armory Show and Tokyo Gendai and are scheduled for a 2026 exhibition "The Mapes Suite" at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno. Their essays and interviews have appeared in frieze, ARTnews, and The Brooklyn Rail, and their writing has been cited by ArtReview, ''Monthly Art, and archived at the Getty Research Institute.As a musician, Amadour released the EP Western Movie Dream and is developing EP The Myth of Amadour: Odyssey of a High Desert Balladeer'' with Orville Peck’s production team and the Pannonia Film Orchestra in Budapest. They have performed at Hotel Café, The Viper Room, and Northern Nevada Pride. They have received acclaim from critics and curators, including Roselee Goldberg, Shana Nys Dambrot, Esthella Provas, David Quadrini, Gladys Tamez, David Roussève, and Kotaro Nukaga.