Term: November ’25 – January ’26
Lilian Munuo is a self-taught multidisciplinary visual artist from Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Her work draws from personal experience, using art as both expression and resistance. Working with strings, nails, and acrylics in mixed media and installation, Lilian explores themes of identity, resilience, healing, and visibility.
Growing up with a physical disability shaped her perspective and deepened her sensitivity to questions of belonging and representation. Through her practice, she transforms these experiences into powerful visual narratives that challenge exclusion and celebrate strength. Each piece becomes a dialogue between fragility and power, absence and presence, self and society.
Her works have been exhibited locally and internationally, including at Arts and Human Rights: Conversing Multiplicities at Concordia University in Canada. She has received recognition as a Mandela Washington Fellow, Tanzanian UN Youth Fellow, Africa No Filter Cover Star, and Tanzanian Sheroe, as well as awards from the Emergent Arts Space and Mulika Tanzania Arts and Human Rights competitions.
For Lilian, art is both a language and a space of healing a way to reimagine how the world sees difference and to reclaim visibility through hope, beauty, emotion, and truth.
