Marion Faymonville is a German artist based in San Francisco and Sonoma County, CA. She uses documentary and staged photography and is interested in eliminating the divide between the real and the imaginary. Her practice is rooted in the beautiful and terrifying natural world and informed by cultural identities within her multiracial immigrant family.
Faymonville holds a BFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has participated in exhibitions at the International Center of Photography, New York; Center for Photographic Art, CA; di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, CA; and the Sanchez Art Center, CA; among others. Her work has been featured in Fisheye magazine, Lenscratch and AllAboutPhoto. It received honorable mentions at the 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards and the 2023 International Photography Exhibition at the Center for Photographic Art. In 2023 she had her first solo exhibition, Black River, at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, CA.
Exhibitions
2025
Not Even Scared, Jettison Creative, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Photography Open Exhibition 2025, The Image Flow, San Anselmo, CA
Metamorphosis, Photographic Exploration Project x La Nature Festival, Liège, Belgium
2024
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Metamorphosis, Mercury20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
Calendar Show, MRKT Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023
International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Fresh Eyes, Counterphoto Collective, Four Barrel, San Francisco, CA
Black River, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA, Solo Exhibition
Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2022
Sky, The Drawing Room, San Francisco, CA
True North, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
Constructions/Connections, SxSE gallery, Molena, GA
Summer 2022, The Curated Fridge, Somerville, MA
The 2022 Where are we Now Exhibition, Lenscratch, online
2020
#ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Awards & Honors
2024 Honorable Mention, Professional Section/Fine Art series, 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, York, UK
2023 Honorable Mention, 2023 International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
2023 Recipient, West Coast Review Sessions, CatchLight x FotoFest, San Francisco, CA
Bibliography
Bay Area Photography Open Exhibition 2025, The Image Flow, 2025
Metamorphosis x La Nature Exhibition catalog, Photographic Exploration Project, 2025
Facsimile, artist zine, Borderline, 2024
MRKTcalendar, MRKT Gallery, 2024
Black River by Marion Faymonville, All About Photo, December 16, 2023
2023 International Juried Exhibition catalog, Center for Photographic Art, 2023
Lou Tsatsas, Cet éte, voyagez en images!, Fisheye Magazine, August 15, 2022
Lou Tsatsas, Les images de la semaine, August 8, 2022
Lou Tsatsas, “Black River”, a l’ombre des tourments, Fisheye Magazine, August 5, 2022
David Campany, #ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis, International Center of Photography, G Editions LLC,
2021
Education
2003 BFA, Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA