Adebunmi Gbadebo

Adebunmi Gbadebo (Ah-dae-bu-mee Bha-dae-bo) is a multidisciplinary artist working with paper, ceramics, sound, and film, exploring the archival record of her family’s ancestry in Nigeria and enslavement in America. Through her research, material selection, and technical process, the artist emphasizes the biases present in the historical record, activating her practice to restore Black subjectivity. Gbadebo’s work is rooted in experimentation, reimagining indigenous craft to abstract the "concrete" history of archival documentation and uncover ancient narratives embedded in the making of utilitarian objects.