Nona Faustine (1977–2025) was an American photographer and visual artist whose work confronted the buried histories of slavery, colonialism, and racial violence embedded in the contemporary American landscape. Born and raised in Brooklyn, she developed a practice centered on photography and self-portraiture, placing her own body within historically charged spaces to examine how histories of race and gender are constructed and remembered. Her work invites viewers to reconsider familiar spaces while encouraging a deeper reflection on representation, memory, and the enduring impact of history on contemporary life.

Faustine received her BA from the School of Visual Arts and her MFA from the International Center of Photography at Bard College. Her images have received worldwide acclaim and have been published in a variety of national and international media outlets such as Artforum, the New York Times, Hyperallergic, The Guardian, The New Yorker, and The Los Angeles Times. Faustine’s work has been exhibited at The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Harvard University, The Studio Museum of Harlem, The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Schomburg Center for Black Research in Harlem, the International Center of Photography, Saint Johns Divine Cathedral, and the Tomie Ohtake Institute in Sao Paulo, among other institutions. Her work is in the collections of the David C. Driskell Center at Maryland State University, the Studio Museum of Harlem, the Brooklyn Museum, and recently, the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2019, Faustine was the recipient of the NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship, the Colene Brown Art Prize, the Anonymous Was A Woman grant and was a Finalist in the National Portrait Gallery's Outwinn Boochever Competition. In January 2020, she participated in the inaugural class of Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock Senegal Residency. 

Faustine's My Country silkscreen series has been exhibited in institutions throughout the United States, including an exhibition at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA in 2020.