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About
Amadi Williams b. 2002
Lives and works in Providence, RI
Education
2021 - 2025 Rhode Island School of Design
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 Senior Show, Woodsgerry, Rhode Island School of Design
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
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
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
Honors & Awards
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
Scholastic Silver Key ( portfolio)
Scholastic Gold Key
2020 Marjorie Oatman Scholarship For Visual Arts
2018 Marjorie Oatman Scholarship For Visual Arts