Dumebi Malaika Menakaya is a Nigerian-American visual artist originally from Howard County, Maryland. Centering queerness, religion, and daughterhood, she is interested in the revelatory power of photography and the practice as an exercise in intuition, discernment, and spirituality. Dumebi graduated from Harvard College in 2023 with a degree in Applied Mathematics with a secondary in Art, Film, and Visual Studies, and was awarded the Harvard OFA Council Prize in Visual Arts. Her work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times and Matte Magazine.
