FAITH XLVI
(b. 1979 Cape Town, South Africa)

Liberty Du is a multidisciplinary artist, who goes by the moniker Faith XLVII. Her artistic journey began in South Africa, where she initially gained recognition for her evocative graffiti. Over the years, her work has expanded beyond iconic murals in public spaces around the world to sculpture, video installations, tapestries, paintings and drawings.

Her artistic language is an exploration of where spirit, nature, activism and ritual intersect, imbued with a sense of reverence for the mysteries that exist beyond the layers of perception. In quest of the divine, she expresses a longing for a deeper connection to the wisdoms of the natural world. There is, too, an active investigation and questioning of the human condition, its deviant histories and our own inherent existential searching.

Faith XLVII’s debut museum exhibition took place at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, France, in 2023. Her work has also been exhibited at institutions such as the Calais Museum of Fine Arts, the Bernard Magrez Foundation in Bordeaux, the Straat Museum in Amsterdam and the Brooklyn Museum in New York, among others.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025
SOLAR LOGOS, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
Venarum Mundi, Heron Art, San Francisco, USA

2023
CLAIR/OBSCUR, Museum of Fine Art, Nancy; Danysz Gallery, Paris, France

2021
CHANT, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2018
Elixir, Castanier Gallery, Miami, USA

2015
Aqua Regalia, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York, USA

2014
Aqua Regalia, London, UK

2012
Fragments of a Burnt History, David Krut Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2009
Epitaph, Mrego, Brussels, Belgium

2008
The Restless Debt of Third World Beauty, ATM Gallery, Berlin, Germany

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

2025
Origins (with Tyler B Murphy and Keya Tama), Straat Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The (Street) Art of Peace, Ross20sette contemporary art gallery, Rome, Italy
EXPO Chicago, with Everard Read, Chicago, USA
Matter Matters: Artists and Their Media, Everard Read, London, UK
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2024
Little Life, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2023
COLAB 5, Torrance Museum, California, USA

2021
FAITH XLVII X KOLEKA PUTUMA, 'Every 3 Hours One of Us Doesn't Make It', Highway Notice Project, with the Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg, South Africa
Salute to the Women of Johannesburg, part of the Hennessy Mural Trilogy, Johannesburg, South Africa
The Land War, installation, MUCA Museum, Munich, Germany
Foundation, Heron Gallery, San Franciscio, USA
The Medicinal Flowers of Lebanon, with Underline Projects, Beirut, Lebanon

2020
Home, digital exhibition, Void Projects
Staring Straight to the Future, digital exhibition, Everard Read, South Africa & UK
Pink, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa
Unprecedented Times, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Vienna, Austria
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2019
Universal Studios Indoor Artwork Commission, Los Angeles, USA
Dictator Art Installation, Colombia
Design Indaba Talk and AURUM Performance, Cape Town, South Africa
The Freedom Piece, The Pailpat Hotel, Los Angeles, USA
20 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Cory Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Together, KP Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Conquête Urbaine, Calais Museum of Fine Art, Paris, France
United Labor Organization 100 Year Mural, New York City, USA
Maya Angelou School Mural Upliftment Project, Los Angeles, USA
Mural Arts Large Mural Production, Philadelphia, USA
Mural commission, Charlottesville, USA
Projection Mapping Mural, BLINK, Cincinnati, USA

2018
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
Short Film Festival CortoLovere, Italy
Please Touch: Body Boundaries, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, USA
Moniker Art Fair, New York, USA
Grand Opening Mirus Gallery, Denver, USA
Beyond The Streets, Los Angeles, USA
Mural Project, Vancouver, Canada
Mural Project, North Carolina, USA
Artmosphere, Russia
One Way Through, Heron Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Moniker Art Fair, London, UK
Destination 131, Paris, France
Summit LA18, Los Angeles, USA
Conquête Urbaine, Paris, France
Women in Street Art, Paris, France

2017
Urban Nation Museum and public art intervention, Berlin, Germany
Arts Council Public art intervention, New Orleans, USA
Homeless, curated by Axel Void, Miami, USA
The Urban Art Biennale, UNESCO Voelklinger Huette World heritage site, Germany
Magic Cities, Munich, Germany
Digard Auction, Tribute to Paris, Paris, France
Urban Currents, Gallerie Kirk, Denmark
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2016
XX: A moment in time, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Cities of Hope Mural Project, Manchester, UK
Inter|urban Mural Project, Cleveland USA
Freedom as Form, Wunderkammern Gallery, Milan, Italy
PM10, Urban Nation Museum group exhibition, Berlin, Germany Agitprop, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Wynwood Walls, Art Basel, Miami, USA

2015
Pow Wow Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan Landfill Meditation, Street Intervention, Johannesburg, South Africa Art Liberté group exhibition, Du Mur de Berlin, Gare de l’Est, Paris, France Dragon Tiger Mountain, Mural Project, Nanachang, China
Ono’u, Mural Project, Tahiti Festival Mural, Montreal, Canada The Psychic Power of Animals, Street Intervention, New York, USA
Murals for Oceans Expedition Mural Project, Cozumel, Mexico

2014
Berlin Wall 25th Anniversary, Paris, France
Library Street Collective group exhibition, Basel, Miami, USA
Redux, Inoperable Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Artscape Mural Project, Malmo, Sweden
5 Sector Mural Project, Glasgow, Scotland
Djerbahood, Djerba, Tunisia
Forest for the Trees Mural Project, Portland, USA
Rencontres Australes de Imaitsoanala, Antananarivo, Madagascar
Outdoor Urban Art Festival, Rome, Italy
The Art of Collaboration Wynwood Walls, Basel, Miami, USA
Artesano Mural Project, Rio San Juan, Dominican Republic

2013
Women on the Walls, Jeffrey Deitch and Wynwood Walls Miami, USA
Wooster Collective 10 Year Anniversary Show, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York, USA
XII Into the Dark, Unit44, The Victoria Tunnel, Newcastle, UK
Brotkunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
Beyond Eden, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Anniversary, White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Memorie Urbane Mural Project, Gaeta, Italy
Sculptura Viva International Symposium, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
Nuart Mural Project, Stavanger, Norway
MAUS Mural Project, Malaga, Spain
Avant-Garde Urbano Mural Project, Tudela de Navarra, Spain
Los Muros Hablan Mural Project, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Pow Wow Mural Project, Hawaii

2012
Antenna Garden Dal & Faith47, Rtist Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
International Women, Warrington Museum, London, UK
Mural Project, Tel Aviv, Israel
Aarhus International Mural Project, Aarhus, Denmark
Group exhibition, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
Mural Project, Sion, Switzerland
Mural Project, Melun, France
Wall Therapy Mural Project, Rochester, New York, USA
Wynwood Walls, Miami, USA

2011
Urban Painting, Milan, Italy
Group exhibition, Wuppertal Museum, Germany
Group exhibition, Warrington Museum, London, UK
Gossip Well Told, Blackall Studio, London, UK
Les murs itinerrance, Paris, France
Urban Mural Project, Greece
City Leaks Mural Project, Cologne, Germany
Inner Walls Mural Project, Milan, Italy
Batelier Mural Project, Slovakia

2010
Moniker Art Fair, London, UK
Design For Humanity, Thinkspace, Los Angeles, USA
For Those Who Live In It, Mu Gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Le Salon Du Cercle De La Culture, Circle Culture Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Stroke03 Art Fair, Berlin, Germany
Escape Art Fair, Vienna, Austria
Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Focus10 Art Fair, Switzerland
Urbanus International, Mural Project, China
Muao Mural Project, A Coruna, Spain

2009
The Generations, The Showroom Gallery, New York, USA
Four, 34 Long Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa
Artotale International, Mural Project, Luneburg, Germany

2008
1st Internationale Graffiti Biennale, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Anything Could Happen, Carmichael Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2007
Be Girl Be, Mural Project, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, USA
Pick of the Harvest, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2006
Lines of Attitude and Mural Project, South Africa And Kenya

2005
Subglob, Orebro, Sweden
Go Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands