Nona Faustine
Photographer
Nona Faustine is a native New Yorker and award-winning photographer. A graduate of Bard’s MFA Program 2013. In 2019 she was distinguished with the New York Foundation Arts award in Photography, BRIC Colene Brown Art Prize, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, and Finalist in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Outwin Boochever Competition. 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 work has been exhibited widely at the National Portrait Gallery, Harvard University, Rutgers University, Maryland State University, Studio Museum of Harlem, Brooklyn Museum, the International Center of Photography, Saint John’s Divine Cathedral, Tomie Ohtake Institute in Brazil among 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 2020 Faustine’s photographs were acquired by the North Dakota Museum, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum in Minnesota, Brandesis University the Johnson Museum, Minnesota Institute of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art and Boston Museum of Art and the Lumber Room in Portland Oregon in 2021. Faustine’s My Country series exhibited at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburg, Fantasy America March of 2021. In much anticipation her White Shoes series published by MACK Books of London debuts in December 2021.
