Chronology

The progressive ice cream company, Ben & Jerry’s, commissions Favianna to develop art for a new flavor and campaign, Pecan Resist. The campaign encourages fans to support social movements and to vote.

The #TimesUp movement is born and Favianna joins efforts to mobilize artists and demand equity and inclusion in entertainment.

Favianna completes a transformative and career-changing residency in Captiva, Florida, in the former studio and home of Robert Rauschenberg. The isolated residency period allows her to break into an entirely new visual language and has a significant influence on her artistic practice.

Together with her non-profit organization, CultureStrike, Favianna co-creates #ClimateWoke, a culture-based campaign drawing the connections between climate change and racial justice. In 2018, Favianna’s visibility as an environmentalist artist activist rapidly increases.

Favianna is awarded her second major public art commission which will feature rescued and adopted animals.

Favianna awarded her first major public art commission by the San Francisco Art Commission. This will mark her first major work in a public building.

Favianna is awarded a grant for developing pro-migrant artworks on public transit in Oakland, in partnership with the social justice organization, Power California.

In collaboration with Oakland Unified School District, Favianna designs pro-migrant posters in seven languages that declare support for undocumented migrant students.

Favianna featured as a prominent artist activist in the United States, along with others notable artists such as Hank Willis Thomas, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Dread Scott, and Zoe Buckman.

At the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Favianna completes her largest art installation to date, consisting of four lasercut collaged figures.

In celebration of her father’s life and influence, Favianna creates a new body work for Day of the Dead, consisting of experimental fabric collages with metal work.

Favianna’s father dies after battle with cancer.

Favianna is awarded the prestigious Robert Rauschenberg Fellowship for her work around ending mass incarceration and immigrant detention.

Inspired by an exhibit of Henri Matisse’s cut outs, Favianna begins to experiment with cut outs, collages and refining her own color palette. She creates an expansive new body of work that will define her future aesthetic style.

The Global Fund for Women commissions two works from Favianna and invites her to host art workshops at a global feminist gathering in Lima, Peru.

Favianna is awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by Beloit College, Wisconsin.

Three years after publicly coming out about her abortion, Favianna delivers keynote remarks at national Planned Parenthood National Federation Conference and hosts Pussy Power art workshops.

Favianna secures her first major studio space, a sunny loft in West Oakland, California. This studio space will eventually push her artist practice into an entire new direction.

Pussy Power is born, a multi-disciplinary art project about pleasure, orgasm, and self love.

Favianna creates a highly popular art poster for the People’s Climate March and together with CultureStrike, supports with art making efforts for the historic New York climate march.

Favianna presents about her art and activism at Creative Time Stockholm, Americans for the Arts, Brooklyn Museum, Ford Foundation, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Favianna is invited as an artist in residence by the prestigious art school, RISD, and there she completes an experimental print edition mixing monotype and wood block.

"Migration is Beautiful," a three part documentary mini series produced by Pharrell Williams about Favianna’s art and activism in immigrant rights, launches on YouTube.

Favianna presents about her art and activism at 30 venues, including appearances at the Grantmakers in the Arts, CalArts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Leeway Foundation, and Alameda County Office of Education.

Favianna meets and hires Nichol Markowitz, a fine artist and graduate of RISD, as her master printer. Nichol will play a significant role in Favianna’s future artistic endeavours as one of her most trusted studio employees.

Favianna presents her "Migration is Beautiful" butterfly at the Smithsonian Asian-Latino Pop-Up Museum!

Migration is Beautiful is born, a series of art works and cultural interventions representing the monarch butterfly as a symbol of freedom and natural migration. The butterfly would eventually become the artistic work that Favianna is most known for.

In bold unapologetic fashion, Favianna creates a series of controversial posters with slogans like "I'm a Slut" and "Pussy Power" as a commentary on sexual freedom and reproductive rights.

As anti-choice legislation sweeps the country, Favianna decides comes out about her abortion after keeping it secret for over 10 years.

Favianna presents her "Migration is Beautiful" butterfly at the Smithsonian Asian-Latino Pop-Up Museum!