Tolulope Amy-Williams
ARTIST BIO_ Tolulope Amy Williams
Tolulope Ami-Williams is a Lagos-based multidisciplinary artist born in 1997. She graduated from the
School of Art, Yaba College of Technology, in 2018, where she trained in performance art under Dr. Odun
Orimolade and received mentorship from Jelili Atiku. She is pursuing an MA in Contemporary
Performance at the Manchester School of Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Since 2016, she has been featured in Lagos community festivals like the Iwaya Community Art Biennale,
the Artist Cross Road Festival, and Boju Boju Night. In 2022, her exhibition ‘Harmony in Discord’
showcased performance and installation at the Alliance Française, Lagos. Tolulope participated in the
Rele Art Foundation’s Young Contemporaries boot camp and residency, creating “The Battle for
Oneness,” exhibited in Ekiti State. In November 2022, she was an Access Art X Prize finalist.
In 2023, through performance, she explored the theme of decolonising restitution at Yinka Sonibare’s
GAS Foundation, curated by Dr. Mahret Kupka. Her work was also part of “ALT + SHIFT + ENTER,” a
multisensory group exhibition curated by Art Bridge Project at Untitled Gallery. She performed “Bodies
and Borders” under the body of work “Knit My Broken Bones Together” at Treehouse Lagos, curated by
Tracian Mikel.
She is a 2023–2024 Chevening scholar and recipient of the 2023 Prince Claus Fund Seed Award,
emerging as one of the three Nigerians selected among the 100 awardees worldwide.
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