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Antonio McAfee (born 1983 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a Baltimore based multimedia artist who works with photo, collage, video and drawing.

Early Life & Education
McAfee was born in Germany and moved to Baltimore County at the age of nine when his father retied from the Army. He received a BFA degree in Photography from the Corcoran College of Art and Design in 2007. He received his MFA in photography from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in 2009. He went to receive a post graduate diploma in Arts and Culture Management at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is an instructor at American University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

Career
McAfee is known for his work appropriating and abstracting historical portraiture to address issues of African American representation.

Honors and awards
McAfee has been named a Civil Society Institute Fellow and a Dedalus MFA Painting and Sculpture Fellow. He has been a recipient of the Fulbright IIE Grant and Maryland State Individual Artist Award.