Amanda Williams is an artist who uses ideas around color and architecture to explore the intersection of race and the built environment. Through an interdisciplinary practice that brings spatial and aesthetic theory to bear on real social problems, Williams is clarifying the role of the artist in reimagining public space. Be it the latent value in vacant houses, the expansive palette of what blackness is, the speculative beauty of tulip bulbs or the social currency of childhood candies, Williams has an ongoing practice of elevating seemingly mundane objects and spaces to a renewed and often reformulated status of importance.

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Her work is in several permanent collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the National Museum of African American History. In 2022 Amanda was named a MacArthur Fellow. 

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Recent work includes: Redefining Redlining, Color(ed) Theory, and Thrival Geographies (exhibited at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale).