Adama Delphine Fawundu is a Brooklyn-based visual artist of Mende, Bubi, and Krim ancestry. Her practice engages themes of ancestral technology, intelligence, memory, and radical imagination. She has exhibited internationally, including at the 36th São Paulo Biennial in Brazil, the Congo Biennial (2025), and the inaugural Malta Biennial (2024). Her current solo exhibitions are on view at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (September 13, 2025 - June 14, 2026) and the Harvey Gantt Center for African American Art & Culture in Charlotte, NC (October 3, 2025 - March 8, 2026)..
Fawundu is the co-author of the critically acclaimed book MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, CatchLight Fellowship, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, and the Rema Hort Mann Artist Grant. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Newark Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art, Bryn Mawr College, Norton Museum of Art, and the David C. Driskell Center. She is also an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University.
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Adama Delphine Fawundu is a Brooklyn-based visual artist of Mende, Bubi, and Krim ancestry. Her practice engages themes of ancestral technology, intelligence, memory, and radical imagination. She has exhibited internationally, including at the 36th São Paulo Biennial in Brazil, the Congo Biennial (2025), and the inaugural Malta Biennial (2024). Her current solo exhibitions are on view at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (September 13, 2025 - June 14, 2026) and the Harvey Gantt Center for African American Art & Culture in Charlotte, NC (October 3, 2025 - March 8, 2026)..
Fawundu is the co-author of the critically acclaimed book MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, CatchLight Fellowship, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, and the Rema Hort Mann Artist Grant. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Newark Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art, Bryn Mawr College, Norton Museum of Art, and the David C. Driskell Center. She is also an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University.
