March Members’ Critique

with Adama Delphine Fawundu

Monday, March 22, 2021
5:00 - 7:00 PM PST

On March 22nd, SF Camerawork will host our members' critique online led by photo-based visual artist and visual consultant Adama Delphine Fawundu, who will provide feedback on members' work and photographic practice.  If you are interested in participating in the March members’ critique online, please submit the form to the left.

To present work at the critique, please email kristina@sfcamerawork.org

ABOUT ADAMA DELPHINE FAWUNDU

Adama Delphine Fawundu is a photo-based visual artist  and visual consultant born in Brooklyn, NY to parents from Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea, West Africa. She received her MFA from Columbia University. 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. Her most recent works investigates the spiritual, cultural, and ideological pre-colonial ways of being that were disrupted by voluntary immigration, colonialism, and distorted within the African Diaspora through oppressive systems stemming from the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. Fawundu uses photography, video, sculpture and printmaking to create new trans-historical identities as she explores Afrofuturist ideas.

Her most recent group exhibitions were on view at the Kunstverein Braunschweig (Germany), The Moody Center for Arts (Rice University) and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, CT). She was commissioned by the Park Avenue Armory and New York University to participate in the 100 Years 100 Women exhibition commemorating one century since the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Solo presentations of her work were recently on view at The Miller Theater at Columbia University, Hesse Flatow Gallery (Chelsea), Granary Arts (Utah), Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, and The African American Museum in Philadelphia. She participated in artist residencies at BRIC Workspace, The Center for Book Arts, the Penumbra Foundation and the African Artist Foundation (Nigeria). Ms. Fawundu was awarded grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, and The Open Society Institute. Her works can be found in the the collections at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Historical Society, The Norton Museum of Art, The David C. Driskell Center (University of Maryland), The Petrucci Family Foundation and The Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Mrs. Fawundu’s works have been published in anthologies such as: Contact High: A Visual History of Hip Hop by Vikki Tobak; Africa Under the Prism: Contemporary African Photography from the Lagos Photo Festival by Joseph Gergel; ReSignifications: European Blackamoors, Africana Readings, edited by Awam Ampka; Committed to the Image: Contemporary Black Photographers by Brooklyn Museum of Art; and Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840-Present by Dr. Deborah Willis. Her works has also been featured in publications such as Vogue, Surface Magazine, The New York Times, Time Magazine, The BBC and New York Magazine.

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