Amadi Williams b. 2002  
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY  
Education 
                 Rhode Island School of Design
                  BFA. Painting & Concentration in Art History
Solo Exhibitions 
2021            Baba Weusi, Shen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 
2019            It Could Be One of Us, Packer Collegiate 
                  
Institute, Brooklyn, NY 
Group Exhibitions
2025         New  Contemporaries, Gelman Gallery, Providence 
                   
RI    
                   Senior Invitational, Woods Gerry, Rhode Island 
                   School of Design, Providence RI 
                   Senior Show, Woodsgerry, Rhode Island School of 
                   DesignToo Cool for School, Virtual Exhibition
                   BLK “Open to Interpretation”, Public Not Private, 
                   Providence, RI 
2024         Landscape As, Memorial Hall, Rhode Island 
                   School of Design, Providence, RI 
                   Black Biennial, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI 
                  Re:pattern : a series of Installations, Rhode 
                  Island School of Design Museum, Providence RI 
                  Bank of America Black History Month 
                   Exhibition, Providence, RI 
                  BAAD x Carrhaus, Providence, RI 
                  Junior Show, Memorial Hall, Rhode Island School 
                  of Design, Providence, RI 
     
        
2023         There’s No Hope for Love in Rhode Island,  
                   Memorial Hall, Rhode Island School of Design, 
                   Providence, RI 
2022           Soup, who cares?, Memorial Hall, Rhode Island 
                  
School of Design, Providence, RI 
                    Painting-A-Day 2022, Memorial Hall, Rhode Island 
                  
School of Design, Providence, RI 
                    Black Arts Showcase Multiplicity, not Monolith: 
                  
Locating the self Through Art, Leung Gallery, 
                   Brown University, Providence, RI 
                    Black Biennial, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI 
    
2020            Not From Around Here, Napa, CA 
2019              Art.Write.Now. The Best Teen Artist of 2019, 
                 
  Parsons School of Design, NY 
                     Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: New York City 
                    Regional Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of 
                 
  Museum of Art, New York, NY 
2016          From Panel to Panel: Our Voices, Medialia Gallery, 
                
  New York , NY    
Awards & Residencies 
2025        BRIClab Contemporary Art Residency, Brooklyn NY
                  Becky Westcott Award 
                 RISD Honors Designation 
2024        RISD Honors Designation 
2023        Herbert Claiborne Pell, III & Eugenia Diehl Pell 
                
Scholarship 
                 RISD Honors Designation 
2022        Ken Dresser ‘61 Scholarship 
                 RISD Honors Designation 
2021         RISD Honors Designation 
2020        Marjorie Oatman Scholarship For Visual Arts 
2018         Marjorie Oatman Scholarship For Visual Arts
Publications 
2024         Student-Curated Black Biennial Breaks Down Walls 
                  Between RISD and the Community, Publicity Radio, 
                
Providence, RI 
                 RISD’s Student-Curated Black Biennial Focuses on 
                  Access and Community, RISD Website 
                Meet Amadi Williams / Multidisciplinary Artists & 
                 
Students, Shoutout SoCal, Virtual 
2022       Black Biennial 2024 A Second Exhibition                                    showcases work by Black artist from RISD and 
                Beyond, RISD Alumni Magazine Summer 2024
                 RISD exhibition The Black Biennial provides 
                
platform for Black experiences by Paige Davidson, 
               
The Architect’s Newspaper  
                 RISD Black Biennial envelops the viewer with the 
                
work of nearly 80 artist by James Baumgarter, 
               
Public 
Radio, Providence, RI
                 Sonder, a  Sequel: A Short History of and Hopeful 
                
Future for the Black Biennial, Volume 1 , Spring 2025
                
Edition, Providence RI
                 RISD’s First Black Biennial Now on View, Rhode 
                
Island School of Design
                 Visual Art Stories, Packer Collegiate Institute, Virtual 
 
       
2019       Best Teen Artist of 2019, Scholastic
                Packer Current Items (Cover photo), Packer 
              
 Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, NY