Amanda Carolina Avalos is a visual artist born and raised in Dallas, Texas.
She received her Bachelor’s of Fine Art in Photography with a minor in Art History from Pratt Institute, and is currently residing in Brooklyn, New York.
Avalos' work explores the multiplicity and fragility of human perception, with a deep interest in how individuals shape and experience their own realities. She examines the psychological, emotional, and cultural layers that form personal and collective identity.
Her practice often centers around subjects existing outside of normative structures; self-identified outcasts, members of underground nightlife, and individuals whose lives blur the line between self-destruction and spiritual expression. Her photographs serve not only as documentation but as intimate studies of alienation and reclamation.
Bodily autonomy, inherited cultural memory, ritualistic practices, and the performative aspects of identity are recurring themes throughout her work.