Open Air: Artist Talk with Adama Delphine Fawundu

Open Air is a monthly series of intimate conversations with Black artists across the globe, hosted by the Gantt. December's installment features artist Adama Delphine Fawundu. Fawundu's; work is featured in a solo show here at the Gantt, Praise House, on view October 3, 2025, through March 8, 2026.

This program will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel.

Adama Delphine Fawundu is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY of Mende, Bubi, Krim ancestry. Her work explores themes such as indigenisation, ancestral memory and activating the radical imagination. She co-authored the book MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. Her awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, Catchlight Fellowship, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, and Rema Hort Mann Artist Grant. Select permanent collections include the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Princeton University Museum, Bryn Mawr College, Norton Museum of Art, and the David C. Driskell Art Collection. She is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University.

Learn more about the artist at delphinefawundu.com.

Dexter Wimberly is an American curator based in Japan who has organized exhibitions in galleries and institutions around the world including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, The Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas, KOKI Arts in Tokyo, Bode Projects in Berlin, and The Third Line in Dubai. His exhibitions have been reviewed and featured in publications including The New York Times and Artforum; and have received support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and The Kinkade Family Foundation. Wimberly is a Senior Critic at New York Academy of Art, and the founder and director of the Hayama Artist Residency in Japan. He is also the co-founder and CEO of the online education platform, CreativeStudy.