Faith ‘Aya’ Umoh

New Media Artist, Creative Director & Applied AI Researcher

Faith “Aya” Umoh is a new media artist, director, and poet whose workblends cultural heritage, immersive image-making, and participatorystorytelling. She is the 2025–2026 Artist-in-Residence at The MusicCenter LA and a Royal Shakespeare Company Artist Research Fellow.With over 15 years of interdisciplinary experience, Aya merges art,storytelling, and technology to create immersive works that honorheritage and imagine new futures. Her practice began with poetic digitalvisuals exploring themes of care and healing, and has since evolved intoan internationally recognized body of work with 15 exhibitions acrosseight countries, including Art Basel, UCLA’s Experimental Digital ArtsGallery, and the Max Ernst Museum.