Amanda Williams is a visual artist who trained as an architect. Raised in Chicago’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood, Williams is best known for her series, Color(ed) Theory, in which she painted the exterior of soon-to-be-demolished homes using a culturally charged color palette to mark the pervasiveness of vacancy and blight in black communities. The landscapes in which she operates are the visual residue of the invisible policies and forces that have misshaped most inner cities. Amanda is a highly sought after lecturer and the subject of many articles on the relationship between art, race, and urbanism. She, in collaboration with Andres Hernandez, is the recent recipient of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation’s 2017 PXSTL public art commission and has forthcoming exhibitions at the Arts Club of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Amanda is a graduate of Cornell University’s School of Architecture, has served as an Adjunct Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and most recently as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Sam Fox School’s Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design at Washington University in St. Louis. Amanda lives and works in Bronzeville.
