Amna Kurtic was born in Tuzla, Bosnia & Herzegovina, during the turbulent shift from the 20th to the 21st century.
Raised in the lingering quiet after conflict, she immigrated as a child to Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Gifted from an early age, amna is a multidisciplinary artist, synesthete, and self-taught musician. Her talents in visual art, poetry, and music emerged long before any formal training. At 13, armed with her first iPod and GarageBand, she began producing music on her own.
She later earned an Interdisciplinary Arts degree from NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia - one of the oldest art schoolS in North America (founded in 1886) - specializing in visual, sound, and digital arts. In her first semester, she won the Academic Excellence Award while living without stable housing. Near graduation, she also completed Oxford’s English program in teaching.
Her early creative voice reached unexpected audiences during high school through a cult followed meme page that mixed satire, intimacy, and spiritual dissociation. That digital presence evolved into music and media with the same blurred boundaries. Getting diagnosed with PTSD & DPDR at 21, after prolonged periods of self medicating, she got back on feet with her track Agony going viral, gaining over a million streams, and appeared in a PewDiePie video before being removed at the request of an unspecified label.
Alongside her formal education, Amna taught herself coding and began exploring media activism. Her creative path often intersected with protest and political tension, sometimes leading to close calls with the legal system she has since stepped away from.
Her art is deeply tied to her spiritual life; she treats it not as a product, but as an offering.
She is currently based in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia), where she spends her time hiking trails, exploring hidden beaches and Appalachian woods, or reading in the sun. One of her favorite rituals is sharing coffee and cigarettes with friends and neighbors. Amna says her idols are Mark Fisher & Philomena Cunk. Amna prefers being left alone with her pets.