b. USA; Photography, Video
Nona Faustine is an award winning photographer. Her work focuses on history, identity, representation, evoking a critical and emotional understanding of the past and proposes a deeper examination of contemporary racial and gender stereotypes. Faustine’s images have been published in a variety of national and international media outlets such as Artforum, New York Times, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, The Guardian, New Yorker Magazine and the LA Times, among others. Faustine’s work has been exhibited at National Portrait Gallery, Harvard University, Rutgers University, Maryland State University, Studio Museum of Harlem, Brooklyn Museum, African American Museum in Philadelphia, Schomburg Center for Black Research in Harlem, the International Center of Photography, Saint Johns Divine Cathedral, Tomie Ohtake Institute in Brazil and many others. Her work is in the collection of the David C. Driskell Center at Maryland State University, Studio Museum of Harlem, Brooklyn Museum and the Carnegie Museum. In 2019 she was recipient of NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship, Colene Brown Award, Anonymous Was A Woman. Finalist in the Outwinn Boochever Competition of the National Portrait Gallery 2019, Faustine was selected for the first inaugural class of Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock Senegal Residency in 2020.
