Amir Denzel Hall is an artist and writer working across performance, photography, video, and dance. Their work examines how Black and queer people in the Caribbean and beyond survive the ways colonialism and enslavement haunt our bodies, times, genders and spirits. Amir currently resides in Trinidad and Tobago.
In 2017, Amir earned a BA from Amherst College, where they studied English, Theater, and Dance. In 2021, with the support of the Goldwater Fellowship, Amir obtained an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University, where they studied with acclaimed authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Carson, and Uzodinma Iweala.
In 2018, Amir continued their studies through the Design Fellowship at Amherst College. Amir spent the next two years co-directing Son of Man, a performance ethnography of Caribbean and African masculinities, with the support of the Roland Wood Fellowship. In 2020, Amir worked with artist Sonya Clark on the Solidarity Book Project, an international art initiative aimed at supporting education and literacy in Black and Indigenous communities.
Amir’s work has been supported by Alice Yard, the Immersive Realities Lab for the Humanities, the CATAPULT grants for Caribbean artists, and the Mojuba! Emerging Choreographer's Award. Their work has appeared in the Chicago Architecture Biennale 2022, the COCO Dance Festival 2022, Documenta 15, and Life Magazine China.