Ademola Olugebefola is an American multidisciplinary visual artist, designer, educator, musician, and businessperson from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. He is considered one of the founders  within the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Olugebefola art practice includes work in painting, murals, printmaking, illustration, drawing, theatre scenic design, and sculpture.[6] He lives in Harlem, New York City, where he moved in 1966

Born from a mother from St. Johns and a father from St. Croix, he was born in St. Thomas, and considers himself of child of all three islands. As a young person, his family immigrated to New York City where he was raised.

Olugebefola joined the Twentieth-Century Creators group in 1964; and was a founder of Weusi Artist Collective in 1965 and subsequently the Weusi Gallery in New York City. These three organizations supported African-American artists, made work for a Black audience, and their work often featured pan-African aesthetics, themes and symbols.

Introduced as a young man to the European Style art, the civil rights movement played an important role in the discovery for him of his African heritage.  And out of this came the “black art for black people” and the beginning of a life-long career of creating art that reflects a different ethnicity, where Harlem became a mecca for this movement. For Ademola, this cultural revolution also included a spiritual awakening that expressed itself through his art, harkening back to the ancestors who came before him.