Fahamu Pecou is a visual artist and scholar. He received his BFA in Painting/Digital Art Atlanta College of Art in 1997 and is pursuing his PhD at the Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University. Recent solo exhibitions include Talking Drum, National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA (2016), Do or Die, Halsey Museum of Art, Charleston, SC (2016), I Know Why the Caged Bird Blings, Backslash Gallery, Paris, France (2015), and Imagining New Worlds, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (2015). His work is featured in the following collections: Smithsonian National Museum of African American Art and Culture, Societe Generale (Paris),  Nasher Museum at Duke University, The High Museum of Art, Paul R. Jones Collection, Clark Atlanta University Art Collection, and Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia.