Nedham completed her BFA at OCAD University in Printmaking and her MFA at RISD in Painting. She currently works and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her studio practice is interdisciplinary with an emphasis on drawing and installation. Nedham is interested in collapsing the monumental and the mundane through radical memorial gestures, with a current emphasis on communing with the dead.  

Recent exhibitions include I’ll draw you a fly at Field Projects in New York City, Frida Smoked at Invisible-Exports in NYC, My Boyfriend is a Peacekeeper at Putty's Coronation in NYC, Q: Are you an undertaker? A: No Q: Are you a service provider? A: Yes at LE Gallery in Toronto, Extract IV Young Art Prize at GL Strand in Copenhagen, and the Hello Future Talents Archive Project at the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens. Amanda has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council. More recently she attended the Wassaic Project residency in Upstate NY and prior to that participated in ARTHA's studio residency program in Brooklyn, New York. She runs workshops on radical love letters and in 2019 published her first book of drawings and love letters, My Boyfriend is a Peacekeeper.