Adama Delphine Fawundu
Bio: Adama Delphine Fawundu is a visual artist born in Brooklyn, NY to parents 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. She was awarded a 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 Art@Bainbridge/Princeton University, The Penumbra Foundation, the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, The Miller Theater at Columbia University, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, African American Museum in Philadelphia and Granary Arts amongst others.
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), The 12th Edition of the Bamako Encounters Photography Biennial (Mali), Norton Museum of Art, Prizm Art Fair, the California African American Museum amongst others. She has participated in artist residencies at The Center for Book Arts, The African Artist Foundation (Nigeria), The Penumbra Foundation, BRIC Workspace Residency and Project for Empty Space.
Her works can be found in the the collections at the Brooklyn 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, The Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo, Brazil as well as private collections.
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: Unfolding layers only to create new ones.
Despite the interruptions, disruptions, interjections, and attempts at erasure --
Our strength is in the syncopation.
We shape shift but never die.
Mami Wata, Yemaya, Amathaunta, Namaka, Makara, Acionna, Nu, Tefnut, Martuv, Yemoja,
Olokun, Tlaoquetotontli
Meet Me in Another World.
L to R: Untitled (24 x 16”, Oil and acrylic on wood, 2017); Nomoli Gaze (30 x 20”, Photograph on archival paper, 2017); Passageways #2, Secrets, Traditions, Spoken and Unspoken Truths or Not (40 x 30”, Photograph on archival paper, 2017)