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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.

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