The Black-faced Antbird lives in humid Amazonian forests. Males are bluish grey and black, while females are brown with a black mask, so the sexes have different plumage. It forages in the middle and upper canopy for insects and other arthropods.
The male has a bluish-grey back, black sides of the head and throat, and a pale narrow eyebrow and forehead; white edges on the wing coverts form three bars. The female is brown above, with a black mask, white throat, and buff underparts.
It uses the mid and upper canopy of humid tropical forest and mature secondary forest, where it feeds on insects and other arthropods.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.