Michael Fadugbagbe
michaelfadugbagbe@gmail.com

Currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION

2025    BA in Studio Art, Time-Based Media/Photography 
              Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

Studied under:
Ilana Harris-Babou
Sasha Rudensky
Yared Zeleke

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025    e be so!, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT.
2025    Time & Place, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT
2024    and this too will be forgotten, 45 Broad, Middletown, CT
2024    Lucid Color, Lucid Color Collective, Middletown, CT
2023    The Show, North Studio, Middletown, CT

COLLECTIONS

        Private Collection, Lagos, Nigeria
        Allbritton Center for Public Life, Middletown, CT
        Private Collection, Brooklyn, NY
        Bailey College of Environment, Middletown, CT

AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, HONORS

2025    Lighting Trainee, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2025    Jessup Prize, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
2025    High Honors Thesis in Studio Art, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
2024    Yale Norfolk School of Art Nomination, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2024    Artist-in-Residence, Bailey College of Environment, Middletown, CT
2024    Bernard J. Zawisa '49 Endowed Studio Art Award, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
2024    Davenport Scholar, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
2023    Jessica & Josh Goldin ACG Award, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, PUBLICATIONS

2025    Sulan Bailey, “Second Rotation of Senior Art Theses Brightens Rainy Week” The Wesleyan Argus, April 18th, 2025
2025    Lauren Muchowski. “Lotus Talk, Interview with Michael Fadugbagbe” WESU 88.1 FM, March 30th, 2025
2024    Eugenia Shakhnovskaya, “The Return of the Lucid Color Collective” The Wesleyan Argus, April 25th, 2024 
2024    Jo Harkless, “Dunking Into the Cold With Wesleyan’s Chillest Cold Plungers” The Wesleyan Argus, February 19, 2024