Angela Fama (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist devoted to social practice and community-focused projects, interweaving lived experiences with collective experiences in areas such as death, love, identity, belonging and trauma. Fama approaches creativity with an intersectional commitment to transparency, awareness, accountability, connection and care. She works to offer collaborative, accessible, safe(r) spaces to explore, listen and share in respectful inclusive environments valuing equity and inviting all identities: LGBTQQIP2SAA+, IBPOC, d/Disabled and diverse in race, ethnicity, class, education and age.

Born in Tennessee (on The Farm), as a varied-generation French/Italian/Scottish/Irish/Unknown settler Fama was raised in Ontario and Zimbabwe and currently lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations (Vancouver BC). Fama holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, a Professional Photo-Imaging Diploma from Langara College and has trained as a death doula. Fama works and has volunteered with gendered violence prevention and post-trauma support organizations. Fama also holds long-standing experience as a musician, photographer, journalist, server, speaker and facilitator. Through this, Fama works to gather familiarity holding space for, and with, multiple truths while committing to unlearning, learning and unlearning again and again.

Previous works relating to what Fama is currently working on are What is Love (2016), aimed at collectively redefining ‘love’ Fama drove across CAN/USA in a pop-up RV studio photo/audio documenting over 300 private conversations with individual passersby in diverse locations, AND THEN IT HIT ME (2019) encourages re-consideration of traditional heteronormative social narratives found in most popular song lyrics, and Death Conversation Game (2019-present) is a deck of question cards inviting interactivity that have expanded into ongoing facilitations, multiple decks and collaborations offering conversations and events relating to sharing on personal relationships to grief, death and dying.