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June 27, 2025 – AMADOUR performs live at Historic L.A. Venue The Viper Room
Amadour returns to the stage for their first Los Angeles performance in years, live at iconic venue The Viper Room in West Hollywood. This special Pride Month show marks a cinematic and deeply personal chapter in Amadour’s musical journey.
Set against the backdrop of one of the most legendary venues in music history—soon to be demolished—this one-night-only performance offers a stripped-down set of vocals and keys, previewing new work from their forthcoming second EP: The Myth of Amadour: Odyssey of a High Desert Balladeer.
Amadour will debut live performances of several new songs, including:
“Angel Eyes,” “Someone Left to Love,” “Downtown Lover,” and more.
With lyrics steeped in memory, longing, and place, Amadour blends orchestral ballads with dreamlike pop, delivering a sound that’s as visual as it is emotional. The upcoming EP is being developed in collaboration with orchestral arranger Alan G. Frausto, and will culminate in a full studio recording this fall featuring the 53-piece Pannonia Film Orchestra in Budapest, Hungary.
This Viper Room performance offers an intimate glimpse into the heart of what’s to come—before the orchestra, before the full production, before the tour.
Amadour Live at The Viper Room
May 11, 2025 – THE CORSAIR: “Amadour: An interdisciplinary artist shaped by SMC and exploring queer identity through art” by Katie Easterson
In The Corsair, journalist Katie Easterson highlights Amadour as a powerful creative force whose art, music, and storytelling are deeply rooted in queer identity, cultural heritage, and personal resilience. The article explores how SMC served as a pivotal launchpad for Amadour’s practice, shaping the foundations of their now-expansive career in painting, songwriting, and writing.
Blending Mexican and Colombian influences with geometric abstraction, Amadour’s works often echo the architectural rhythms of Santa Monica and Reno—featuring archways, vivid color blocking, and gold leaf textures that evoke memory, loss, and light. The feature traces their journey from drawing “manas” as a child in Reno to developing The Mapes Suite, an ambitious visual and musical project centered on Black, queer, and Hollywood histories in Nevada.
Openly nonbinary and deeply introspective, Amadour speaks candidly about identity, queerness, and making art from a place of emotional honesty. Their forthcoming album I Was Born in the Silver and I Died There Too includes original ballads like “Someone Left to Love” and “I Want to Be Your Sailor”—songs that offer rare, lyrical perspectives on queer longing, familial grief, and chosen connection.
The Corsair feature affirms Amadour’s commitment to building a body of work that functions as both archive and portal: a sacred space for others to feel seen. As the artist states, “Even in the moments where you feel the most fear or inadequacy… create. Because sometimes that's the most powerful thing you can do.”
Amadour in the studio, provided by The Corsair
April 23, 2025 – Santa Monica College In Focus: “Amadour: Painter, Pianist, Troubadour”
In SMC In Focus (Volume XI, Issue 2) spotlights Amadour as a rising multidisciplinary artist whose work transcends traditional categories. The article explores how Amadour’s practice seamlessly fuses painting, storytelling, and musical composition to excavate memory, illuminate overlooked histories, and create deeply resonant emotional landscapes.
Santa Monica College highlights Amadour’s profound connection to Southern California’s geography and light, and their ability to weave personal and diasporic narratives through geometric abstraction and lyrical soundscapes. Recognized by the college as an emerging cultural voice, Amadour’s work continues to expand the conversation around identity, place, and resilience.
Portrait of artist Amadour in Virginia City, Nevada, provided by Viviana Rusk.
APRIL 19, 2025 – INTERNATIONAL CITATIONS: ARTREVIEW AND MONTHLY ART
Amadour’s critical writings and interviews have been cited in leading international art publications, marking a significant moment of recognition for their contributions to contemporary discourse.
In ArtReview, Amadour’s interview with Gabrielle Goliath was referenced by author Stephanie Bailey in the article “Gabrielle Goliath: Working in Trauma’s Wake” (2025), which explores artistic responses to collective memory and healing.
In Monthly Art (South Korea), Amadour’s interview with Gala Porras-Kim was cited by author Suyeong Lim in “Multilayered Perspectives: Gala Porras-Kim” (2025), situating their dialogue within broader conversations around cultural stewardship and artistic interpretation.
These citations underscore Amadour’s growing presence not only as a practicing artist and musician, but also as a critical voice shaping the global conversation around art, identity, and memory.
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Amadour holding ArtReview (April 2025) at the Getty Research Institute
March 12, 2025 – The Nevada SageBrush: “Amadour: The Voice Of Nevada’s Forgotten Histories” by Emily Hess
In a compelling feature for The Nevada Sagebrush, journalist Emily Hess spotlights Amadour as “The Voice of Nevada’s Forgotten Histories.” The article explores Amadour’s interdisciplinary approach to art and music, their deep-rooted connection to Nevada, and their commitment to illuminating overlooked narratives—particularly those of queer and Black histories.
Hess details how Amadour’s work bridges geometric abstraction, storytelling, and music to bring visibility to these histories, positioning them as an artist whose impact extends beyond traditional boundaries. The piece also highlights their upcoming project The Mapes Suite and the ways in which their work challenges and reshapes Nevada’s cultural landscape.
Portrait of artist Amadour, provided by Kaitlin Saragusa/BFA.com.
February 28, 2025 – KOLO: "Reno Native Returns to UNR for Artist Talk Featuring Special Project on The Mapes Suite" by Katey Roshetko
In this KOLO Channel 8 News feature, Katey Roshetko covers Amadour’s return to the University of Nevada, Reno for a special artist talk, where they discussed their multidisciplinary practice and the development of The Mapes Suite—a project exploring Reno’s lost architectural and cultural landmarks. The sit-down television interview highlighted Amadour’s connection to Nevada’s artistic landscape and their commitment to preserving overlooked histories through art and music.
Amadour at the KOLO News Channel 8 TV Station, Reno
December 23, 2024 – Sierra Sun: "Amadour: A Multidisciplinary Artist Bridging Music and Art" by Zoe Meyer
In this feature, Zoe Meyer of the Sierra Sun explores Amadour’s unique ability to bridge the worlds of visual art and music, seamlessly integrating geometric abstraction, performance, and storytelling. The article highlights Amadour’s deep ties to Nevada, their international art exhibitions, and their emerging presence in music, solidifying their role as a cultural force across multiple disciplines.
Amadour reading the Sierra Sun at Lake Tahoe
July 28, 2024 – Gen De Art Magazine: "Intersection of Material and Language: Group Exhibition by Five Artists at KOTARO NUKAGA Gallery"
This feature highlights the group exhibition Materiality and Language: Explorations in Form and Meaning, on view at KOTARO NUKAGA Gallery in Roppongi, Tokyo, from June 8 to July 31, 2024. Curated by acclaimed Museo Jumex art advisor Esthella Provas, the exhibition brings together five artists—Stefan Brüggemann, Jose Dávila, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho, and Amadour—who each investigate how language and material coalesce to create new pathways for meaning-making in contemporary art. The show unfolds across the gallery’s Tennoz and Roppongi spaces, highlighting distinct practices that range from installation to sculpture and hard-edge painting. Amadour’s work stands out for its shimmering, intimate scale—luminous abstractions on linen that integrate 24-karat gold leaf, layered acrylic mediums, and graphite marks that reference musical notation. These works reflect the artist’s ongoing exploration of geometric form, light, and sound as narrative tools, merging visual and emotional registers while drawing from the landscapes of California and Nevada. Positioned among international figures like Brüggemann—known for conceptual text works in gold—and Dávila—whose fragile sculptures test the limits of balance and tension—Amadour introduces a deeply personal, cinematic poetics into the curatorial dialogue. Their paintings evoke the aesthetic language of silence and resonance, using minimalism to tell stories about diaspora, queer desire, and the mythology of the American West.
Works by Amadour at KOTARO NUKAGA, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo
July 21, 2023 – Cultbytes: "Amadour’s Western Movie Dream Can Be Your Fantasy Too" by Shea Seery
This feature by writer Shea Seery explores Amadour’s debut music release, Western Movie Dream, highlighting its cinematic storytelling, romantic nostalgia, and multidisciplinary connection to their visual art practice. The article delves into Amadour’s ability to bridge music and fine art, creating a compelling and immersive world for listeners.
Amadour in Los Feliz, California, 2023. Photography by Justin Reissman.
March 15, 2023 – Artillery Magazine: "GALLERY ROUNDS: AMADOUR" by Shana Nys Dambrot
This feature by Los Angeles art critic Shana Nys Dambrot explores Amadour’s solo exhibition and debut music release, Western Movie Dream, highlighting their cinematic storytelling, romantic nostalgia, and multidisciplinary connection to their visual art practice. The article delves into how Amadour bridges music and fine art, creating a compelling and immersive world for listeners and viewers alike. Amadour showcased their distinctive approach to geometric abstraction and performance through their solo show, further solidifying their place as a boundary-pushing contemporary artist.
Amadour, “Looking Out from this Unmade Bed,” 2023.