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Nona Faustine's artwork focuses on history, identity, representation, and evoking a critical and emotional understanding of the past, while proposing a deeper examination of contemporary racial and gender stereotypes. These silkscreens are part of series called My Country, which was featured in an exhibition at the Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) in 2021. In this series, Faustine confronts and interrogates iconic American monuments, such as the Lincoln Memorial and the Statue of Liberty, using her camera to reframe conventional, colonialist perspectives, and reinserting some of the truth and trauma behind these memorialized spaces. Fragment of Evidence was the first image in this series, a photograph of the Statue of Liberty with a black line in front of it, an obstruction in the foreground. This led the artist to an exploration of other symbols of American power, into which she inserted her own obstructions.

Faustine’s 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, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, the Guardian, the New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times. Faustine’s work has been exhibited at Harvard University (Boston), the Studio Museum of Harlem, African American Museum in Philadelphia, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Harlem), the International Center of Photography (New York), Cathedral of Saint John the Divine (New York), and the Instituto Tomie Ohtake (Sao Paulo). Her work is in the collections of the David C. Driskell Center at University of Maryland, the Studio Museum of Harlem, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh). She is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts and the International Center of Photography at Bard College’s MFA program.