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      
        
                  

©Amadi Williamscreating 2023