Lilian Munuo is a self-taught multidisciplinary visual artist from Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, whose work explores memory, identity, resilience, and the lived experience of disability. Working with strings, nails, acrylics, and installation, she creates textured visual narratives that challenge perceptions and invite emotional and embodied engagement.
Through her lived experience of disability, Lilian experienced environments where difference was often overlooked or misunderstood. Art became her language of resistance and reflection, an expressive space where she could reclaim visibility, reframe narratives, and explore the complexities of belonging. Her practice is rooted in storytelling, material experimentation, and the belief that art can hold both beauty and disruption at once.
Lilian’s work has been exhibited locally and internationally, including at Concordia University’s Arts and Human Rights: Conversing Multiplicities exposition in Canada. She has been recognized as a Mandela Washington Fellow, Tanzanian UN Youth Fellow, Africa No Filter Cover Star, and Tanzanian Sheroe. Her artistic work has also earned awards, including thirdplace in the Emergent Arts Space competition for Arts and Human Rights and second place in the Mulika Tanzania Arts and Human Rights competition.
Across canvas, thread, and installation, Lilian creates work that invites audiences to feel rather than simply observe crafting visual landscapes where vulnerability becomes strength and where art becomes a site for connection, reflection, and transformation.