Faith XLVII
b. 1979, Cape Town. Lives in Los Angeles, USA.
Faith XLVII (previously Faith47) is a street and studio-based artist who works with a wide range of media. Her approach is explorative and substrate appropriate – from found and rescued objects, to time-layered and history-textured city walls and their accretions, to studio prepared canvas and wood. Her murals can be found in many cities in Europe, the USA, Africa and Asia.
Solo Exhibitions
2025: SOLAR LOGOS, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa, Venarum Mundi, Heron Art, San Francisco, USA
2023: CLAIR – OSCUR, Musée des Beaux-arts, Nancy, France.
2023: CLAIR – OSCUR, Daynsz Gallery, Paris, France.
2021: CHANT, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town.
2018: Elixir, Fabien Castanier Gallery, Miami.
2015: AQUA REGALIA, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York.
2014: Aqua Regalia, London, UK
2013: Fragments of a burnt history, David Krut Gallery, Johannesburg.
2009: Epitaph, Mrego, Brussels.
2008: The Restless Debt Of Third World Beauty, Atm Gallery, Berlin.
2008: The Restless Debt Of Third World Beauty, The Woom Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Group Exhibitions - International
2025: Origins (with Tyler B Murphy and Keya Tama), Straat Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The (Street) Art of Peace, Ross20sette contemporary art gallery, Rome, Italy
2025: EXPO Chicago, with Everard Read, Chicago, USA
2025: Matter Matters: Artists and Their Media, Everard Read, London, UK
2025: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2024: Little Life, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2023: CO\LAB 5, Torrence Museum, California, USA.
2021: ‘The Land War’ Installation, MUCA Museum, Munich, Germany.
2021: Foundation, Group Show, Heron Gallery, San Fransisco, USA.
2020: One World, Fabien Castanier Gallery, Miami.
2020: Unprecedented Times, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Vienna.
2019: 20 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Cory Helford Gallery, Los Angeles.
2019: Together, KP Projects Gallery, Los Angeles.
2019: Conquête Urbaine, Calais Museum of Fine Art, Paris.
2019: Veni, Vidi, Vinci, Fluctuart, Paris.
2019: Tàpia, B-Murals, Barcelona.
2019: Capture the Street, River Tales, Germany.
2019: We Rise, Los Angeles, USA.
2019: Beyond the Streets, New York City.
2019: Women in Street Art, Bernard Magrez Foundation, France.
2019: Art Miami, Miami.
2019: Art Basel, Miami.
2018: One Way Through, Heron Gallery, San Francisco.
2018: Women in Street Art, The Bernard Magrez Foundation, Paris.
2018: True Will, Chins Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
2018: Moniker Art Fair, New York and London.
2018: Art Miami, Fabien Casteneir Gallery, Miami.
2018: Art Basel Miami, Miami.
2017: Urban Currents, Gallerie Kirk, Denmark.
2017: Magic Cities, Munich, Germany.
2017: the UrbanArt Biennale® , UNESCO Voelklinger Huette World heritage site, Germany.
2017: Homeless, Void Projects, Miami.
2016: XX: A moment in time, Saatchi Gallery, London.
2016: Freedom as Form, Wunderkameren Gallery, Milan.
2016: PM10, Urban Nation Museum, Berlin.
2016: Agitprop, Brooklyn Museum, New York.
2014: Artscape, Malmoe, Sweden.
2014: Forest for the trees mural festival, Portland.
2014: Rencontres Australes d’Imaitsoanala, Antananaraivo, Madagascar.
2014: A study of Hair, Backwoods Galley, Melbourne.
2014: Redux , Inoperable Gallery, Vienna.
2014: Outdoor Urban art festival, Rome, Italy.
2014: Wywood walls, Art Basel, Miami.
2013: Anniversary Group Show ,White Walls Gallery, San Fransisco.
2013: Memorie Urbane Contemporary Festival, Gaeta, Italy.
2013: Escape the Golden Cage , Vienna, Austria.
2013: XII. Into the Dark, Unit44, The Victoria Tunnel, Newcastle.
2013: Scupltura Viva International Symposium, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy.
2013: DOS, Toronto.
2013: Women on the walls, Jeffrey Deitch and Wynwood Walls, Miami.
2013: Beyond Eden, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles.
2013: Wall Therapy, New York.
2013: Wooster Collective 10 Year Anniversary Show, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York.
2013: Nuart Festival, Stavanger, Norway.
2013: Avant-Garde Urbano Festival, Tudela de Navarra, Spain.
2013: Los Muros Hablan, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2012: Antenna Garden, Rtist Gallery, Melbourne.
2012: Carbon Event, Melbourne.
2012: Warrington Museum, London.
2012: Herzensbrecher, Strychnin Gallery, Berlin.
2012: Kulturhuset , Stockholm.
2012: Wynood Walls, Miami.
2011: Urban Painting, Milan.
2011: MSA Gallery, Paris.
2011: Urban Mural Project, Greece.
2011: Gossip Well Told, Second Edition, Warrington Museum, London.
2011: City Leaks Festival, Cologne.
2011: Inner Walls, Milan.
2011: Les murs litinerrance, Paris.
2011: Gossip Well Told, Blackall Studio, London.
2011: Visual Intervention, Rochester.
2011: Archetypes, View Art Gallery, England.
2011: Artmosh, Munich.
2011: Wuppertal Museum, Germany.
2010: Moniker Art Fair, London.
2010: Stroke03 Art Fair, Berlin.
2010: Escape 2010, Veinna.
2010: Biennial, Sao Paulo.
2010: Urbanus International Mural Project, China.
2010: Focus10, Switzerland.
2010: Le Salon Du Cercle De La Culture A Berlin, Circle Culture Gallery, Berlin.
2010: Design For Humanity, Thinkspace, Los Angeles.
2010: or Those Who Live In It…, Mu Gallery, Eindhoven.
2010: Muao Project, A Coruna, Spain.
2010: Paint Your Faith, Aayden Gallery, Vancouver.
2010: A Cry For Help, Thinkspace, Los Angeles.
2009: The Generations, The Showroom Gallery, New York.
2009: Artmosh, Paris.
2009: Artotale International Mural Project, Lueneberg, Germany.
2009: No New Enemies , Mr Ego, Brussels.
2009: Four, 34 Long Fine Art Gallery , Cape Town.
2008: 1st Internationale Graffiti Bienale, belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2008: Anything Could Happen, Carmichael Gallery, Los Angeles.
2008: Fatally Yours, Crewest Gallery, Los Angeles.
2007: Crossover, Showroom Gallery, New York.
2007: Be Girl Be, Jntermedia Arts, Minneapolis.
2007: Pick Of The Harvest: Batch Four, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles.
2005: Subglob, Orebro, Sweden
2005: Go Gallery, Amsterdam
Group Exhibitions - South Africa
2020: Staring Straight to the Future, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town.
2020: PINK, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg.
2020: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town.
2019: On Main Road, Constitution Hill Women’s Jail, Johannesburg, South Africa
2019: FNB Art Joburg, Johannesburg.
2018: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town.
2017: Dislocation, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town.
2017: Invisible Exhibition, The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg.
2017: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town.
2011: Outside, 34 Long Gallery, Cape Town.
2010: Cool Stuff, 34 Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town.
2010: Nothing Is Everything, Word Of Art Gallery, Cape Town.
2009: Group Soup, Word Of Art Gallery, Cape Town.
2007: The Art Of The Living Dead, Baseline Studios, Johannesburg.
2006: New Suburbia, Pretoria.
2006: Lines Of Attitude, South Africa and Kenya.
Murals - International
2025: San Quentin State Prison mural project, California, USA.
2025: SEVEN, commissioned mural, permanent collection of the STRAAT Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2021: Douce Vie, collaborative mural with Helen Bur, Angers, France.
2021: Solar Logos I, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2021: Medicinal Flowers of Lebanon mural series, Beirut, Lebanon.
2020: Y/our Vote, USA.
2019: Universal Studios Indoor Artwork Commission, Los Angeles.
2019: Dictator Art Installation, Columbia.
2019: United Labor Organization 100 Year Mural, New York City.
2019: Maya Angelou School Mural Upliftment Project, Los Angeles.
2019: Mural Arts Large Mural Production, Philadelphia.
2019: Projection Mapping Mural, BLINK, Cincinnati.
2019: RED, Mural Project for HIV Awareness, Lyon.
2018: Summit LA18, Los Angeles.
2017: Artscape Festival, Sweden.
2017: Art Republic Mural Project, Jacksonville.
2017: Art Council Public art intervention, New Orleans.
2017: Art Miami, Juxtapoz Clubhouse installation, Miami.
2016: Cities of Hope Mural Project, Manchester.
2016: Inter|urban Mural Project, Cleaveland.
2016: Wynwood Walls, Art Basel, Miami.
2015: The Psychic Power of Animals Street Intervention, New York.
2015: Dragon Tiger Mountain Mural Project, Nanachang, China.
2015: Pow Wow Taiwan, Taipei.
2015: Ono’u Mural Project, Tahiti.
2015: Festival Mural, Montreal, Canada.
2015: Murals for Oceans Expedition Mural Project, Cozumel, Mexico.
2014: 5 Sector Mural Project, Glasgow.
2014: Berlin Wall 25th Anniversary Group Show, Paris.
2014: Djerbahood, Djerba, Tunisia.
2013: Pow Wow Mural Project, Hawaii.
2013: Upfest Mural Project, Bristol.
2013: MAUS Mural Project, Malaga, Spain.
2012: Mural Project, Tel Aviv.
2012: Aarhus International Mural Project, Aarhus, Denmark.
2012: Mural Project, Sion, Switzerland.
2012: Mural Project, Melun, France.
2012: Paris Free Walls, Paris.
2012: Wall Therapy, Mural Project, New York.
2012: World Open Walls, Miami.
Murals - South Africa
2017: Johannesburg Mural, Sandton.
2016: 1200 - 900 BC, Cape Town, South Africa.
2016: Unearth, Napier, South Africa.
2015: Landfill Meditation Street Intervention, Johannesburg.
2015: Feet Don't Fail Me Now, Johannesburg.
2014: A Study of Warwick Triangle at Rush Hour, Durban.
2015: Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem, Johannesburg, 2015.
2014: Harvest, Cape Town.
2012: The Long Wait, Johannesburg.
Lena Sulik, Faith XLVII: Optimism as a strategy for the future, (ASAI, 2020).
2026, Faith XLVII’s latest body of work, SOLAR LOGOS, is a testimony to inner illumination,
Kate Mothes, “Faith XLVII Sews Textiles Made from World Maps and Currency to Explore the ‘Veins of the World,'” Colossal, 17 June 2025;
Joe Garcia, How San Quentin prisoners reached around the world to create ‘a piece of freedom, 5 August 2025.;
Tova Lobatz, “Catching Up with Faith XLVII, as she Reimagines the World, One Stitch at a Time,” Between 10and5, August 2025;
2022: Faith 47 Morphic Resonance: Miami Mural of Roots, Renewal and Life After Fire,
Dave Mann, “CHANT: Faith XLVII’s public practice”, Daily Maverick, April 22, 2020.;
Ilana Herzig, “The Renegades Making Feminist Art In the Streets”, Hyperallergic, October 31, 2019.;
Petra Mason, “15 Young local artists that have wowed the world in 2019/”, Times Lives, December 15, 2019.;
Charu Suri, “Five Women Reinventing the Face of Street Art”, Muse, August 8, 2018.;
Liz Ohanesian, “This South African Street Artist Moved to L.A. to Explore the Politics of Being Human”, LA Mag, April 17, 2018.;
Brent Lindeque, “South African graffiti piece tops the worlds best list!’, Good Things Guy, January 11, 2018.;
Petra Mason, “Re-Mixing History: African Women Artists at Art Basel Miami Beach 2017”, Whitehot Magazine, December 2017.;
Elizabeth Mccray, “Faith47”, Bliss magazine, April 2014;
Brendon Bell-Roberts; Ashraf Jamal, “100 Good Ideas,” March, 2014.;
Daisy Wyatt, “In search of a female Banksy: Aiko and Faith47 take on a male-dominated street art world,” The Independent, October 15, 2013.;
Charlie Finch, “The Savage Street,” Artnet.;
Foadmin, “Faith47: Sea to Sea,” Fair Observer, December 26, 2012.;
“Walls & Frames: Fine Art from the Streets,” September, 2011.
Nicholas Ganz, “Graffiti World,” 2009.
Kiriakos Iosifidis, “Mural Art,” November, 2008.
Nicholas Ganz, “Graffiti Woman,” 2006.
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