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 Metamorphosis, Photographic Exploration Project x La Nature Festival, Liège, Belgium
2024 (20th) Julia Margaret Cameron Awards (exhibition), FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2024 Metamorphosis, Mercury20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2024 Calendar Show, MRKT Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023 2023 International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
2023 Fresh Eyes, Counterphoto Collective, Four Barrel, San Francisco, CA
2023 Black River, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Solo Exhibition, Novato, CA *
2023 2023 Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2022 Sky, The Drawing Room, San Francisco, CA
2022 True North, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
2022 Constructions/Connections, SxSE gallery, Molena, GA
2022 Summer 2022, The Curated Fridge, Somerville, MA
2022 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 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards - Honorable Mention in the Professional Section/Fine Art series
2023 Center for Photographic Art, 2023 International Juried Exhibition, Honorable Mention
2023 Recipient, CatchLight x FotoFest: West Coast Review Sessions, San Francisco, CA
Bibliography
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