Adama Delphine Fawundu

Assistant Professor, Artist

Columbia University

Adama Delphine Fawundu is a photographer and interdisciplinary artist born in Brooklyn, NY the ancestral space of the Lenni-Lanape.  She is a descendant of the Mende, Krim, and Bubi peoples. Her distinct visual language centers around themes of indigenization, and ancestral memory. Fawundu co-published the critically acclaimed book MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. Her awards include the 2023 Catchlight Fellowship, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, and the Rema Hort Mann Artist Grant, among others.  Her works are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Princeton University Museum;, Bryn Mawr College; The Petrucci Family Foundation of African American Art, Asbury, NJ; The Brooklyn Historical Society; Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach; 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.