Michael Fadugbagbe
michaelfadugbagbe@gmail.com

EDUCATION

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

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS and SCREENINGS

2026    NFFTY 2026, National Film Festival for Talented Youth, Seattle, WA
             eMeLeK, Teatro Latea, New York, NY
             People, Times, and Lives, Chorus, New York, NY

2025    e be so!, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT
             Time & Place, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT

2024    and this too will be forgotten, 45 Broad, Middletown, CT
             Lucid Color, Lucid Color Collective, Middletown, CT

AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, HONORS

2026     Filmmaker-in-Residence, Strother School of Radical Attention, New York, NY
              Best Experimental Jury Nominee, National Film Festival for Talented Youth, Seattle, WA   
              Internal Nominee, Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship, Wesleyan University

2025     Jessup Prize, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT   
              BLAC Fellowship, New York, NY                  
              High Honors Thesis in Studio Art, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

2024     Yale Norfolk School of Art Shortlist, Yale University, New Haven, CT
              Artist-in-Residence, Ignatius Ajuru University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
              Artist-in-Residence, Bailey College of Environment, Middletown, CT
              Bernard J. Zawisa '49 Endowed Studio Art Award, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
              Davenport Scholar, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

2023    Jessica & Josh Goldin ACG Award, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

COLLECTIONS

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

TEACHING and LECTURES

2026     Mentor, Reel Works, New York, NY
              eMeLeK, Teatro Latea, New York, NY

2025     Teaching Assistant, International Center of Photography, New York, NY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, PUBLICATIONS

2025    Sulan Bailey, “Second Rotation of Senior Art Theses Brightens Rainy Week” The Wesleyan Argus, April 18th, 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 
              Jo Harkless, “Dunking Into the Cold With Wesleyan’s Chillest Cold Plungers” The Wesleyan Argus, February 19, 2024