Angela Fama (she/they) is a Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artist devoted to social practice and community-focused projects, interweaving lived and collective experiences relating to identity, trauma, death, and belonging. Fama’s practice is grounded in transparency, accountability, and care, creating opportunities for participation, dialogue, and collective meaning-making.
Fama holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, a Professional Photo-Imaging Diploma from Langara College, and is trained as a death doula through Douglas College. They are a 2028 MFA candidate at the University of Alberta.
Born in Tennessee (on The Farm) as a varied-generation French/Italian/Unknown settler, Fama was raised in Ontario and Zimbabwe and currently lives between the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations (Vancouver BC) and Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton AB) on Treaty 6 Territory.