Five performers on stage surrounded by plywood boxes. Two are standing, two sit beside one another on a pair of boxes, and one woman sits in a chair with both hands on her knees.

BFA Visiting Artist Lecture: Amanda Horowitz

Mon Apr 06
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm ET
Einstein Auditorium
34 Stuyvesant Street, New York, NY 10003

Amanda Horowitz is an interdisciplinary artist working between performance and sculpture. She writes and directs theater using experimental and collaborative methods. Recent performance projects include Fashion (2026, Exponential Festival); Bad Stars (Collapsable Hole, 2024; Prelude Festival, 2023; STARS Gallery, 2022); Heavenly Fools (Mason Gross Playwrights Festival, 2023); Suddenly, This Summer (PAM, 2019); and The Plumbing Tree (by Medium Judith, Highways Performance Space, and Human Resources LA, 2018–19). She was the co-founder and director of Medium Judith (2013–2019), a theater collaboration with Bully Fae Collins. Amanda holds a dual MFA in Visual Art and Playwriting from Rutgers University. She is currently a Visiting Artist in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Dance, Theater, and Performance, where she is developing a new play with students.

Amanda Horowitz will speak about her recent play, Fashion, and lead a short performance-writing workshop for students using found text and collaborative writing techniques.

Visiting Artist Lectures

Each spring, our BFA students invite contemporary visual artists to visit NYU and give lectures about their work. The content of the Visiting Artist Lectures ranges from in-depth explorations of a specific body of their work to a general overview of their practice and experience with galleries and the art world.

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