Photographer and Visual artist Nona Faustine was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She is a graduate of The School of Visual Arts and The International Center of Photography at Bard College MFA program in 2013. Her work focuses on identity, representation, and our collective relationship to history.

Nona Faustine’s images have received worldwide attention, and have been published in a variety of national and international media outlets, such as the New York Times, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, New Yorker, The Guardian, Elle, Artforum, among many others. Faustine's work has been exhibited at the Schomburg Center for Black Research in Harlem, the International Center of Photography in New York, Mana Contemporary, the Studio Museum of Harlem, the Institute of Fine Art, the African American Museum in Philadelphia, St. Johns Divine Cathedral in NYC, College of Staten Island, University of Connecticut, and Boston University. She had her first solo exhibition at Smack Mellon 2016, and her second solo exhibition at Baxter St. Camera Club NY in January 2017. Faustine’s work is in the permanent collection of the Studio Museum of Harlem and the David C Driskell Center at Maryland State University.