AJ Wilmore

Born and raised in Philadelphia, on the land known as Lenapehoking, the ancestral home of the Lenni-Lenape people, AJ Wilmore is an artist and performer whose work explores storytelling, identity, and the complexities of Black familial relationships. Through her practice, she excavates desire while navigating questions of visibility, intimacy, and selfhood. A 2020 graduate of The University of the Arts, she refined her approach to movement investigation. Recent performances include adaku part 1: the road opens (2023) by Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, and Joan Jonas’s Mirror Piece I and II at MoMA. Wilmore’s work embraces fear, vulnerability, and the textures of social and sexual life.