Jamal Ademola

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.