Faith-Ann Kiwa Young is a Los Angeles–based, half-Japanese multidisciplinary artist, known for her colorful digital abstractions and large-scale fabric “flag” sculptures that transform light and space into meditative sanctuaries. Blending photography, painting, poetry, sculpture, and digital collage, her practice explores memory, healing, and collective resilience— offering moments of calm within today’s fast-paced world.
Her textile installations and photographic compositions have been exhibited internationally, from Miami to England, and frequently include participatory, community-based elements. She collaborates with artists, NGOs, and cultural organizations on projects addressing mental health, non-violence, and social connection. Drawing from her Japanese heritage, she founded Kibō Nobori (meaning “hope flags”) in 2022— an annual children’s art and culture festival in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles—celebrating community renewal in the post-COVID era.
Faith-Ann earned her B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University, studied photography at UCLA Extension, and Japanese language at Kanda University in Chiba, Japan. Her photography has appeared in The Economist, Rolling Stone, and Dwell, and has been published in two coffee table books. Before launching her full-time art career, she founded and led the award-winning creative agency Mossy Creative, acquired by Blended Strategy Group in 2021.
Recent highlights include designing the 2025 AAPI scarf for Angel City FC, receiving a Root & Resilience Grant from the Doan Foundation, and exhibiting at Descanso Gardens’ Sturt Haaga Gallery.
Through her multidisciplinary practice, Faith-Ann continues to use art as a bridge for reflection, community, and peace—building luminous, inclusive spaces that celebrate resilience and connection.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My artistic practice uses color, vibrancy, and ethereality to reimagine space and time, to create a safe space in our incessantly violent world, to create shelter, joy, and comfort for those who need it, and to amplify and support those who feel often unseen.
I paint with images - layering elements of photos I have collected over the years - vistas from nature, celestial patterns, ancient iconography, even my own paint strokes - into magical realistic digital compositions that are meant to evoke memory. As my father is currently suffering from early on-set dementia, this practice has taken on a new meaning.
I print these unique compositions onto delicate, diaphanous fabrics, sew, and hang these sculptures ceremoniously into the air, as a means of casting a wish, opening a portal. I am recreating a soft, womb-like state, where we were all floating futures, protected and finally free.
There is this concept in Japan called Mono No Aware - which is an intense awareness of one's place in the world, and our transience here. I think I am trying to showcase this - the intense brilliance and infinite heartbreak of what it is like to be alive at this time.
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS / INSTALLATIONS
July 2025 Remembrances Series : “Be Love” Installation | Casa Murtoli | Corsica, France
Sept 2024 All The (Healing) Parts | Duo Exhibition with Shizuka Kusayanagi | DMST Atelier | LA, CA
Feb 2024 LAGC Inaugural Flag Installation | Sofi Stadium | LA, CA
Feb 2024 Cycle of Life | Collide 01 Creative Wellness | El Sereno, CA
May 2023 KIBŌ NOBORI | Terasaki Budokan | Downtown Little Tokyo | LA, CA
May 2022 KIBŌ NOBORI | Terasaki Budokan | Downtown Little Tokyo | LA, CA
Nov 2025 “Searching For Serenity” Descanso Gardens | La Cañada Flintridge, CA
Sept 2025 “Sanctuary : Sanctuary City” LA Design Weekend | Park + Lex Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Mar 2025 Notes On LA | Pascal Foto + Art Group Show | West Adams, Los Angeles, CA
Feb 2025 Art For Renewal Fire Relief Benefit | 18th Street Arts Center | Los Angeles, CA
Feb 2025 La Ayuda | Felix Art Fair | Los Angeles CA
Feb 2024 Soft Recreation Lunar New Year Celebration | Hollywood, CA
May 2024 KIBŌ NOBORI | Terasaki Budokan | Downtown Little Tokyo | LA, CA
May 2024 Connected Installation | Honor Your Feelings Festival | Asian Mental Health Project | LA, CA
May 2023 Imagination Station | Honor Your Feelings Fest | Asian Mental Health Project | LA, CA
May 2023 To My Ancestors Installation | Pinaysphere AAPI Event | Ventura, CA
Dec 2021 Hero's Journey | Group Installation | Carillon Wellness Resort | Miami Art Basel Week| Miami, FL
Fall 2019 Women Flag Installation | Venice Vernon Art Studios | Venice, CA
Feb 2019 Women Flag Installation | Lean In x Savoir Collab | The Row DTLA
Oct 2018 Hindsight Book Release | Book collaboration with Justin Timberlake
July 2017 LOVE Installation | Midsummer’s Night | Kent, UK
Dec 2015 Windhorse Debut | Summit At Sea | Miami, FL
Dec 2015 Windhorse Exhibit | Freehand Hotel | Miami Art Basel | Miami, FL
Nov 2013 House of Drama Exhibit | The Space 650 | Venice, CA
June 2013 LOVE Group Exhibit | The Space 650 | Venice, CA
July 2012 Untamed Exhibit | Lux/Eros Gallery | Venice, CA
Oct 2011 Audio/Visual Juried Exhibition Presented by NY Photo Festival | Power House Arena | Dumbo, NY
Oct 2010 CMJ "30 Years" Art Exhibit | Paper-Spaceship Gallery | Chelsea, NY
Mar 2010 On The Fridge Group Exhibit | Particle Studios | San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS / INSTALLATIONS
VIDEO
2016 Director - “Can’t Stop The Feeling - First Listen” Music Video - featuring Justin Timberlake, Gwen Stefani, James Corden, Anna Kendrick
AWARDS / GRANTS
2025 Roots + Resilience Grant | Doan Foundation 2021 Webby Award | Public Service & Activism | #IStayHomeFor Social Activism Campaign to Prevent Spread of Covid-19, feat. Kevin Bacon
2012 Winner | Objects of Desire : Interiors Competition | PDN Magazine
2012 Best Music Shots of 2012 | Rolling Stone Magazine
Residencies
2025 City of Santa Monica Camera Obscura Lab Artist-In-Residence