Valerie Asiimwe Amani is a Tanzanian interdisciplinary artist and writer.
Her practice interrogates the ways in which body, language, and myth are used to situate (or isolate) the self within community; with works that bridge the political, domestic and intimate.
She has exhibited internationally including group shows in Lagos, Paris, Cape Town and Leipzig with a recent solo performance at South London Gallery in collaboration with the Roberts Institute of Art as well as a solo exhibition at Alliance Française, Dar es Salaam.
Amani holds an MFA from The Ruskin School of Art and was the recipient of the 2021 Ashmolean Museum Vivien Leigh Prize and The 2022 Ingram Prize. Her work has been featured in Art Monthly and Hyperallergic amongst others. She is also a contributing writer on Emergent Art Space, with a focus on emerging artists from the Global South; and has given various talks on contemporary African art including University of Edinburgh, Carleton University (CA) and University of Johannesburg (SA).