Dr. Fahamu Pecou, Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, received his BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1997 and his MA and PhD from Emory University in 2017 and 2018, respectively. His work is exhibited internationally, and he is a frequent lecturer at colleges and universities.
An educator and cultural leader, Dr. Pecou is the founder and executive director of the African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta (ADAMA) and the creator of (ad)Vantage Point, a narrative-based arts curriculum focused on Black male youth.
Pecou’s work is held in prominent public and private collections worldwide, including the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Société Générale (Paris), the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, The High Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Seattle Art Museum, the Paul R. Jones Collection, Roc Nation, Clark Atlanta University Art Collection, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.
He is the recipient of numerous honors, including the 2022 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, the 2016 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Award, and the 2020 South Arts Prize (Georgia). In 2020, he was selected as one of six artists for Emory University’s inaugural Arts & Social Justice Fellowship. In 2017, he was the subject of the retrospective exhibition Miroirs de l’Homme in Paris.
Pecou’s work has also appeared in film and television, including HBO’s Between the World and Me, Black-ish, and The Chi, and in publications such as Atlanta Magazine, Hanif Abdurraqib’s A Fortune for Your Disaster, and Rion Amilcar Scott’s The World Doesn’t Require You.