Jamal Ademola is a Nigerian-American artist and filmmaker who creates across film, video, animation, painting, installation, acting, and performance. Working at the intersection of cinema and fine art, Ademola’s work explores inter-cultural expressions of blackness, identity, memory, dreams, and migration to cultivate a sense of place and belonging. As an actor, he appeared in “Imagine a Moon Colony” on the Hulu TV series “Your Attention Please” and “Ten Cent Daisy,” streaming on Amazon Prime Video and Tubi. Jamal is the creative director of “The Blind Couple From Mali,” an upcoming feature documentary film about Grammy-nominated musicians Amadou and Mariam, produced by Makers and French conglomerate Mediawan. Jamal is currently in production with his first feature film, “They Came From the Clouds,” which has been graciously supported by Comcast (NBCUniversal), BAVC Media, PAM-CUT, and Kala Art Institute. His films “I Dreamed of Seeing Myself” and “Who Should I Be in the World?” have screened at festivals across the globe. Recent exhibitions and screenings include showings at the August Wilson Center (2024), the Images Festival (2024), (BCA) Black Cultural Archives in London (2023), Alchemy Film & Arts Festival (2023)(2022), Kala Art Gallery (2022), The New School (2022), and Untitled (AWCA) White Space Creative Agency in Lagos, Nigeria (2021). He is represented by Where the Buffalo Roam for commercials, film, and television.
