FAITH XLVII
(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 Arts, 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 AND PROJECTS

2025

Origins (with Tyler B Murphy and Keya Tama), Straat Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The (Street) Art of Peace, Rosso20sette contemporary art gallery, Rome, Italy

EXPO Chicago, with Everard Read, Chicago, USA

Matter matters, 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

Through and Through, SOHO House and Ellerman House, Curated by Everard Read Gallery, 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

Pink, group exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

Unprecedented Times, group exhibition, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Vienna, Austria

Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2019 

Context Miami Art Fair, with Everard Read, Miami, USA

Art Basel, Miami, USA

Universal Studios Indoor Artwork Commission, Los Angeles, USA

Dictator Art Installation, Columbia

Design Indaba Talk and AURUM Performance, Cape Town, South Africa

The Freedom Piece, group exhibition, The Pailpat Hotel, Los Angeles, USA

20 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Cory Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Together, group exhibition, 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, Everard Read CIRCA Gallery Cape Town, South Africa

Short Film Festival CortoLovere, Italy

Mana Contemporary group exhibition

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, group exhibition, Heron Gallery, San Francisco, USA

Elixir, solo exhibition, Miami, 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, group exhibition and public art intervention, Berlin, Germany

Arts Council Public art intervention, New Orleans, USA

Homeless, group exhibition 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, group show, Gallerie Kirk, Denmark

Investec Cape Town Art Fair, 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, group exhibition, 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 

Aqua Regalia, solo exhibition, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York, USA 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, Nanchang, 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 

Aqua Regalia, solo exhibition, London, UK

Berlin Wall 25th Anniversary, group exhibition, Paris, France

Library Street Collective group exhibition, Basel, Miami, USA

Redux, group exhibition, 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, group exhibition, Jeffrey Deitch and Wynwood Walls Miami, USA

Wooster Collective 10 Year Anniversary Show, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York, USA

XII Into the Dark, group exhibition, Unit44, The Victoria Tunnel, Newcastle, UK

Brotkunsthalle, group exhibition, Vienna, Austria

Beyond Eden, group exhibition, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Anniversary, group exhibition, 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 

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

Antenna Garden Dal & Faith47, Rtist Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

International Women, group exhibition, 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, group exhibition, Milan, Italy

Group exhibition, Wuppertal Museum, Germany

Group exhibition, Warrington Museum, London, UK

Gossip Well Told, group exhibition, Blackall Studio, London, UK

Les murs itinerrance, group exhibition, 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, group exhibition, Thinkspace, Los Angeles, USA

For Those Who Live In It, group exhibition, Mu Gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Le Salon Du Cercle De La Culture, group exhibition, 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, group exhibition, The Showroom Gallery, New York, USA

Epitaph, solo exhibition, Mrego, Brussels, Belgium

Four, group exhibition, 34 Long Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa

Artotale International, Mural Project, Luneburg, Germany

2008 

The Restless Debt Of Third World Beauty, solo exhibition, Atm Gallery, Berlin, Germany

1st Internationale Graffiti Biennale, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Anything Could Happen, group exhibition, Carmichael Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2007 

Be Girl Be, Mural Project, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, USA

Pick of the Harvest, group exhibition, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2006 

Lines of Attitude, group exhibition and Mural Project, South Africa And Kenya

2005 

Subglob, group exhibition, Orebro, Sweden

Go Gallery, group exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands