ADAMA DELPHINE FAWUNDU
Adama Delphine Fawundu is a photo-based visual artist who was born in Brooklyn, NY to parents from Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea, West Africa. She received her MFA from Columbia University. Fawundu uses photography, video, sculpture, and printmaking to create new transnational identities as she explores Afrofuturist ideas. Within this framework, she explores decolonization, memory, and intersecting histories. Her most recent works investigate indigenous ontologies while imagining new ways of being in the world. Ms. Fawundu is a co-author/editor of the critically acclaimed book MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora which features over 100 women photographers of African descent from around the globe.
Solo presentations of Ms. Fawandu’s work have taken place at The Miller Theater at Columbia University, Hesse Flatow Gallery (Chelsea), Granary Arts (Utah), Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, and The African American Museum in Philadelphia. She has participated in artist residencies at BRIC Workspace, The Center for Book Arts, the Penumbra Foundation, and the African Artist Foundation (Nigeria). Notable group exhibitions took place at the Kunstverein Braunschweig (Braunschweig, Germany), The Moody Center for Arts (Rice University, Houston, TX), the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, CT), and the Park Avenue Armory for 100 Years 100 Women exhibition commemorating one century since the ratification of the 19th Amendment (New York, NY).
Her works can be found in the collections at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Historical Society, The Norton Museum of Art, The David C. Driskell Center (University of Maryland), The Petrucci Family Foundation, and The Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Mrs. Fawundu’s works have been published in anthologies such as: Contact High: A Visual History of Hip Hop by Vikki Tobak, Africa Under the Prism: Contemporary African Photography from the Lagos Photo Festival by Joseph Gergel, ReSignifications: European Blackamoors, Africana Readings, Edited by Awam Ampka, Committed to the Image: Contemporary Black Photographers and Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840-Present by Dr. Deborah Willis. Her works has also been featured in publications such as Vogue, Surface Magazine, The New York Times, Time Magazine, The BBC and New York Magazine.
In the Face of History Freedom Cape #1, 2020