Adama Delphine Fawundu

Adama Delphine Fawundu (b. 1971, Brooklyn, NY) co-published the critically acclaimed book, MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. For decades, she has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including Lefferts Historic House, Prospect Park Brooklyn; Newark Art Museum, Newark, NJ; Malta Biennial, Valletta, Malta; Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ; International African American Museum, Charleston, SC; Gropius Bau, Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA; African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; among others. Her awards include the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Fine Arts, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, New York Foundation for The Arts Photography Fellowship, and Rema Hort Mann Artist Grant, among others. She is also a 2022 finalist for The National Portrait Gallery's Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. 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; Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA; The Petrucci Family Foundation of African American Art, Asbury, NJ; Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, NJ; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL; The David C. Driskell Art Collection, College Park, MD; and number of private collections. She is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University. She lives and works in New York, NY.