Amanda Kerdahi M is an Egyptian-American visual artist and DJ who uses video, installation, and performance to explore the connections between object and subject. Throughout her work, she amasses objects, which are deemed invaluable, to mark a particular time or event.  Her ongoing work focuses on the evidence and residue of intimate conversations held between women in Cairo. Kerdahi exhibits internationally, and in 2014, she received a grant from The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture for Filtered Conversations at Round Table. In 2018 she and Eto Otitigbe co-curated Topophilia, a video art exhibition with 16 international artists in an abandoned farmhouse in Nees, Denmark. Recently, Kerdahi is a 2023 Creative Capital Awardee for Tankugbe Incubation Lab as part of eo Studio, founded by Eto Oititgbe.

In 2012, she co-founded Benefsigy Studio, a 5 room art space in downtown Cairo. Additionally, she organized Pop Up on the Nile, a series of women-centered dance parties on feluccas, which are popular motorboats on the Nile, and served as resident DJ. These queer, female centered events featured an eclectic mix of music deeply rooted in diaspora and encompassing multiple languages. As DJ Purplpitch, she has performed in a number of international cities. In Houston, she held a weekly residency at Brasil Café and Dandana.

Kerdahi graduated from the University of Houston in 2005 with a BFA in Photography and BS in Psychology. In 2013, she earned her MFA from University of Plymouth, UK.