Amanda Williams
Amanda Williams is a visual artist who trained as an architect. Her creative practice employs color as a way to draw attention to the complexities of how race shapes how we assign value to space in cities. Her installations, paintings, and works on paper seek to inspire new ways of looking at the familiar and to raise questions about the state of urban space and ownership in America. Williams has exhibited widely, at venues including MoMA New York, the Venice Architecture Biennale, MCA Chicago, and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis. She recently won a commission to design a permanent monument to Shirley Chisholm in Brooklyn, and has been recognized as a Joan Mitchell Foundation grantee, a USA Ford Fellow, an Efroymson Arts Fellow, and a Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow. Williams lives and works on the South Side of Chicago. (Artist portrait by Tony Smith.)
