Faune Ybarra (faune/she/they) is a diasporic artist, cultural worker, temporary resident of so-called “Canada” and an uninvited guest to Musqueam, Squamish, and Tseil-Waututh territories. Her practice is conceived through signs and signals to (un)root in the places where they’ve resided, this is what they call “diasporic gestures”. These gestures take the form of performance, textile work, photo-based and community art projects. Faune’s iterative practice rejects the (art)object as a given outcome and instead speculates on how nomadic and Indigenous creative methodologies warp and weft to document the history of collective hope and resistance. Faune is passionate about facilitating dialogue and connection among BIPOC art/ists with the conviction that art is essential for systemic re-imagination and change.

Faune has developed, performed, exhibited, and spoken about her practice at galleries, artist-run centres, and conferences across Turtle Island such as Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC), ArtStarts (Vancouver), Eastern Edge Gallery (St. John's), Capture Photo Fest (Vancouver), The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery (St. John's), Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver) and Diasporic Futurisms (Toronto). She holds a BFA in Visual Arts from Memorial University of Newfoundland and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Simon Fraser University.

Faune works as a Community Arts Programmer for the City of Vancouver as well as the Program Assistant for Cinevolution Media Arts Society’s Micro Grant.