Josiane Faubert

Josiane Faubert is a Seattle-based painter born in Libreville, Gabon, whose life has unfolded across African, European, and American cultures. Her multicultural experience informs an ongoing exploration of home, belonging, and the ways identity is shaped by the places we inhabit and the lives we build. 

Working primarily in oil, Faubert paints intimate domestic scenes. Her subjects read, rest, gather with friends, or simply enjoy a moment to themselves. Rather than presenting women through narratives of struggle or exceptional achievement, she is interested in the richness of ordinary life and the freedom to exist without explanation.

Color, light, and interior architecture play central roles in her paintings. Warm palettes, patterned surfaces, and carefully arranged spaces create environments that feel familiar yet emotionally layered. These interiors hold traces of memory, cultural inheritance, personal choices, and the subtle ways different worlds coexist within a single home.

Drawing from her experience of moving between cultures, Faubert considers how we create a sense of belonging without necessarily belonging to just one place. Her paintings ask what we inherit, what we carry with us, and what we choose to make our own.

Faubert's work has been exhibited at the Masur Museum of Art, where she received Second Place in its 61st Annual Juried Competition, the Northwest African American Museum in Seattle, and The Other Art Fair Los Angeles. She is an artist member of Gallery 110 in Seattle.