Jamal Ademola is an award-winning Nigerian-American artist and filmmaker with a diverse array of talents. Jamal poetically works across a kaleidoscope of disciplinarity—film, video, animation, drawing, painting, installation, acting, and performance—investigating issues of Black identity, memory, migration, dreams, ritual, and myth. His work has been exhibited and screened at art galleries and film festivals around the world. In addition to creating eye-catching commercials and nurturing his artistic practice, he is writing and developing innovative projects for film and television in the hopes of facilitating healing. He is currently in production on a hybrid docu-fiction film titled "Ellas Vinieron de Las Nubes" and writing a visual autoethnographic film project about the African diaspora titled "Pieces of You". His films "I Dreamed of Seeing Myself" and "Who Should I Be in the World?" have screened internationally at festivals, from Lagos, Nigeria, to Hawick, Scotland.
Recent exhibitions include showings at (BCA) Black Cultural Archives in London (2023), Alchemy Film & Arts Festival (2023)(2022), Kala Art Gallery (2022), The New School (2022), and Untitled AWCA Lagos (2021). As an actor, he appeared in "Imagine a Moon Colony" on the Hulu TV series "Your Attention Please" and "Ten Cent Daisy," streaming on Amazon Prime Video and Tubi. He is the recipient of the 2021–22 Kala Media Art Award, the 2022–23 PAM CUT Sustainability Labs Fellowship, the 2023 Black Experience on Xfinity Grant Program from Comcast (NBCUniversal), and is a 2023 CDDP Semi-Finalist. Jamal has been awarded artist residencies at Caldera Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Kala Art Institute, Pocoapoco, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Santa Fe Art Institute, and Wassaic Project. His work has been published in I-D magazine, Vogue Italia, Creative Boom, Okay Africa, Bomb Magazine, and Vice.
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