Amanda Williams is a visual artist who trained as an architect. Her creative practice employs color as an operative means for drawing attention to the complex ways race informs how we assign value to the spaces we occupy. Williams's installations, sculptures, paintings, and works on paper seek to inspire new ways of looking at the familiar and, in the process, raise questions about the inequitable state of urban space and ownership in America. 

Williams received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University. She has exhibited at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; among others. She serves on the board of the Terra Foundation and Pulitzer Arts Foundation. She is also co-founder of the non-profit Black Reconstruction Collective. Williams is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow with work in several permanent collections including MoMA NY, MCA Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Smithsonian. Her breakthrough series Color(ed) Theory has been named by The New York Times as one of the 25 most significant works of postwar architecture in the world.