education
2023- 2026 - PHD - Ruskin School of Art - University of Oxford, U.K
2021 - MFA - Ruskin School of Art- University of Oxford, U.K
2014 - BA- Fashion Design - FEDISA, S.A
solo
2024 - In my dream, we spoke another Language, Forster Gallery- Zanzibar, Tanzania
2022 - A Confluence of Parts, Alliance Française - Dar es salaam, Tanzania
2022 - To Dismantle a House (Solo Performance), South London Gallery - London, U.K.
select group
2025 - Le Sel Noir, Städtische Galerie- Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany
2025 – Amani: Kukita, Kung’oa. – Museen Stade – Stade. Germany
2024 - Immortal Apples, Eternal Eggs, Hastings Contemporary - Hastings, U.K
2024 - Shapeshifting Halle, Raumerweiterungshalle - Berlin, Germany
2024 - Diasporas Now (performance), I.C.A London - London, U.K
2023 - Boundary Encounters, Modern Art Oxford - Oxford, U.K
2023 - Nay, Her foot Speaks, Cooke Latham - London, U.K
2023 - Mundane x Sacred x Profane, Sakhile&Me - Frankfurt, Germany
2022 - Je suis moi-meme le soleil, 31 Projects - Paris, France
2022 - (Ongoing) Moving Mountains, GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts - Leipzig, Germany
2021 - Terrains of Possibility, Rele Gallery - Lagos, Nigeria
2021 - Ferengi (The Strange), Villa Mondriaan - Winterswijk, Netherlands
2020 - Non-Representational, Stevenson Gallery (Online) - South Africa
2020 - Magician: Black body and Portraiture, Fellows Of Contemporary Art - Los Angeles, U.S.A.
2019 – The Main Complaint, Zeitz MOCAA - Cape Town, South Africa.
panels, lectures and workshops
2022 - Workshop Symbolism, status and self: Pattern-making and Transfer Printing , Courtauld Gallery and Hospital Rooms - U.K.
2022 - Lecture African Digital Humanities: Digital Art, Carleton University invited by Dr. Chambi Chachage - Canada
2021 - Panel Womxnhood: Non-Binary and Queer inclusion , OSISA - South Africa
2020-21 Lectures and Workshops Nafasi Academy Mentor, Nafasi Art Space - Tanzania
2020 - Panel Surviving and Thriving: A Black History Month Artistic Celebration, Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa, London School of Economics - London, U.K.
2020 - Panel Art & Activism, Royal African Society, S.O.A.S. - University of London, U.K.
2020 - Panel Africa in 2020: Prospects and Forecasts, Royal African Society - University of Edinburgh, U.K.
2019 - Panel Fakugesi Digital Art Festival. Creative Economies, University of Johannesburg - South Africa
residencies and awards
2024 - Foundwork Artist Prize
2023 - Arts Council England DYPC Grant - Recipient
2022 - Ingram Art Prize - Winner
2022 - Linenhall International Artist Residency - Castlebar, Ireland
2022 - South London Gallery and Roberts Institute of Art Performance Artist Residency - London, U.K.
2022 - Dentons Art Prize - Commendation
2022 - Henrike Grohs Award - Shortlisted
2021 - The Intense Now Residency [online], Maputo Fast Forward - Mozambique
2021 - The Vivien Leigh Prize - Winner
2019 - ARK (Artist Residency of Kigamboni) - Tanzania
2018 - British Council CollabNowNow Residency - Mozambique
2016 - International Design Awards - Silver Winner (African Fashion) - Los Angeles, U.S.A.
publication and features
2024- Notes that may or may not be about a Stone, V. A. Amani and R. Chachage - Texte Zur Kunst #133 Restitution
2023 - Where is Africa , Edited by Emanuel Admassu and Anita N. Bateman, - Center for Art, Research and Alliances.
2022 - Revisit: Kariakoo market, Valerie Amani, The Architectural Review Public Issue July/August 2022
2022 - The Red List & The Speech I would have given. In Other Words II , Metal Culture, pp.70-71
2022 - Unmasking a History of Colonial Violence in a German Museum, Dan Hicks - Hyperallergic
2021 - Long wait on a parallel street, Solitude Journal 3 - Mutations, Akademie Schloss Solitude and KfW Stiftung 2020 - Letter from Dar es Salaam, Jesse Gerard, Art Monthly Uk: Issue 442 Nov - Jan 20/21
2019 - Symptoms of a Pathology, Jesse Gerard. PSP Culture
collections
The Ashmolean Museum
The Ingram Collection
Private Collections