A D A M A D E L P H I N E F A W U N D U
Adama Delphine Fawundu is a photographer and visual artist of Mende, Bubi, and Krim descent born in Brooklyn, NY. Fawundu co-published the critically acclaimed book, MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. She is a 2024 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Fine Arts. Her awards include New York Foundation for The Arts Photography Fellowship (2016) and the Rema Hort Mann Artist Grant (2018), and a 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition finalist. She was commissioned by the Park Avenue Armory to participate in the 100 Years|100 Women Project/The Women’s Suffrage NYC Centennial Consortium (2019-2021). Her works are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Princeton University Museum, Princeton, NJ; The Petrucci Family Foundation of African American Art, Asbury, NJ; The Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY; Norton Museum of Art, Palm Springs, FL; The David C. Driskell Art Collection, College Park, MD; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; and a number of private collections. She is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University.
S E L E C T E D P O R T F O L I O S
FOR MAMA ADAMA HYMNS & PARABLES
SELF PORTRAITS
FOR MAMA ADAMA
PASSAGEWAYS
FOR THE ANCESTORS AT MALAGA ISLAND
E X H I B I T I O N S
ADAMA DELPHINE FAWUNDU
When The Water Sings
September 7 - November 2, 2024
P R E S S
News / Press Gallery
ADAMA DELPHINE FAWUNDU
Museum Group Exhibition
International African American Museum, Charleston, SC
Follow the North Star: Freedom in the Age of Mobility
May 23 - November 3, 2024
https://iaamuseum.org/the-museum/special-exhibitions/