Adama Delphine Fawundu
Adama Delphine Fawundu is a first generation visual artist born in Brooklyn, NY with heritage from Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea, West Africa. Ms. Fawundu is a co-author/editor of the critically acclaimed book MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. This book features over 100 women photographers of African descent from around the globe. Fawundu was featured in the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary film, In Our Mother’s Garden directed by Shantrelle P. Lewis. Her awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, Catchlight Fellowship, Rema Hort Mann Artist Grant as well as the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship amongst other awards. She received her MFA from Columbia University.
She has presented public installations at Prospect Park in Brooklyn and Federal Hall in New York City. Solo show exhibitions and performances include, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Newark Museum of Art, Art@Bainbridge/Princeton University, The Penumbra Foundation, The Miller Theater at Columbia University, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, African American Museum in Philadelphia and Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts & Culture amongst others.
Biennials include the 36th São Paulo Biennal (Brazil), the 1st Malta Biennal and The 12th Edition of the Bamako Encounters Photography Biennial (Mali).
Her National and International exhibitions include Brooklyn Museum of Art, Savvy Contemporary (Berlin), Kunstverein Braunschweig, Maryland Institute of Art, Moody Center for the Arts, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Chale Wote Art Festival (Ghana), Norton Museum of Art the California African American Museum amongst others. She has participated in artist residencies at The Center for Book Arts, The African Artist Foundation (Nigeria), Sacatar Institute (Brazil), The Penumbra Foundation, Indigo Arts Foundation, BRIC Workspace Residency and Project for Empty Space.
Her printmaking collaborations include the Brandywine Workshop and Archives the Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University.
Her works can be found in the the collections at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Newark Museum of Art, Princeton University Museum, Bryn Mawr College, The Brooklyn Historical Society, The Norton Museum of Art, The David C. Driskell Center (University of Maryland), The Petrucci Family Foundation as well as private collections.
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Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Adama Delphine Fawundu '18 is currently exhibiting three interrelated works exploring the interconnectedness of geographies and our shared humanity—fittingly, these exhibitions take her work across the globe.
Director of Visual Arts Graduate Studies and Assistant Professor Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18 has debuted a new large-scale, site-specific installation titled Ancestral Whispers at Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park. The installation is part of Fawundu's role as the inaugural Artist in Residence for the Prospect Park Alliance's ReImagine Lefferts initiative.
Assistant Professor Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18 has been named the first-ever artist in residence of the Prospect Park Alliance, a non-profit organization that collaborates with the city to manage the borough's second-largest green space.
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) hosted a series of events on Monday, January 17, 2022, in celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Here, we talk with Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, Director of Graduate Studies, and alumna Adama Delphine Fawundu '18 about getting her start in the golden era of hip-hop, studying for an MFA at Columbia University and finding her voice as a visual artist.
Professor and alumna Adama Delphine Fawundu '18 is featured in two shows, one as part of the Newark Artist Collaboration and another alongside alumna Priscilla Aleman ‘19.
Assistant Professor Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18 was among the winners of the 2021 Anonymous Was a Woman Awards.
Tales from the Mano River is a site-specific mural by visual artist Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18. It was curated by Kalia Brooks Nelson and commissioned by Miller Theatre—where it has been viewed by thousands of concertgoers since September 2019. Fawundu’s haunting composited images of the West African river extend her research into the water deity, Mami Wata. We were happy to reconnect with them in early May.
Gathering Together is the latest solo show by artist, alumna, and Assistant Professor Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18.
Alumna and Professor Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18 is featured in five group exhibits and one solo exhibit this season.
This fall, Adjunct Assistant Professor and alumna Adama Delphine Fawunda ’18 will be featured in five exhibits across the country.
Adama Delphine Fawundu is a second-year student in Columbia’s Visual Arts program.
Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18 has been awarded one of three CatchLight Fellowships. Established in 2017, these fellowships seek to foster an international community of visual artists who are committed to expanding the social footprint of multimedia storytelling.
Visual Artist Assistant Professor Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18 is featured in multiple shows this year, from the Bamako Encounters—African Biennale of Photography in Mali and a group exhibition in the Goodman Gallery in Capetown/Johannesburg, South Africa, to a show in the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, in Cincinnati, Ohio.