NATALJA KENT

Czech and US Citizen | Based in Los Angeles, CA


EDUCATION

Corcoran School of Art, Foundation in Painting

School of Visual Arts, Bachelor of Arts with Honors


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Light Waves II, And Pens Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2024

Light Waves, Oolong Gallery, San Diego, CA, 2024

Movement Artifact, Beacon, Los Angeles, CA 2023

Light Moves, Situations at Foreland, Catskill, NY, 2022

Movement Artifact I, Ladies’ Room, Los Angeles, CA, 2019

Camera Obscura Artist Residency Exhibition, Santa Monica, CA, 2019

Static Transmission, 186 Carpenter, Providence, RI, 2016

Raid The Icebox, RISD Museum, Providence, RI, 2015

Fortune Underneath, 186 Carpenter, Providence, RI, 2012

Feminine Object, Dirt Palace, Providence, RI, 2012


SELECTED TWO PERSON AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS

The Trial, Group Exhibition with Good Naked Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2023

Venice Clinic Art Walk, Benefit Auction Group Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA 2023

American Folk Art Museum, Benefit Auction Group Exhibition, New York, NY, 2023

Back2School, Friend of a Friend Gallery, Denver, CO, 2022

Atmospheres, Pace Gallery, New York, NY, 2021

Orchids: Attraction and Deception, Barry Art Museum, Norfolk, VA, 2021

Good Witch/Bad Witch, Museum of Museums, Seattle, WA, 2021

Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA, 2019

Cinders Gallery/ New York Art Book Fair, PS1 MOMA, 2018

Color Cue: Explorations in Perception, Center, Santa Fe, 2018

Humble Arts Group Show #52, Alternative Facts, 2017

Humble Arts Group Show #47, Space Jamz,, 2015

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibit, Dodo Hamilton Gallery, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, 2015

100 Machines With Magnets, Pawtucket, RI, 2014

Living As Form, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2014

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibit, Westerly Co-operative Gallery, Westerly, RI, 2011

Night For Day, AS220 Project Space, Providence, RI, 2010

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Stairwell Gallery, Providence, RI, 2009

Secret Rooms of the Dirt Palace Pt.3, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA, 2008

New Obstructions, Mercantile Block, Providence, RI, 2008

Secret Rooms of the Dirt Palace Pt. 2, PS1 MOMA, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Queens, New York, 2008

Secret Rooms of the Dirt Palace Pt.1, Hera Gallery, Westerly, RI, 2007

Art of Music, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY, 2007

Assume Visit Astro Focus (AVAF), Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo, Japan, 2006

Dirty Hands, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2006

Assume Visit Astro Focus XII, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England, 2005

Assume Visit Astro Focus XI, Rosa De la Cruz Collection Space, Key Biscayne, FL, 2004

Possessions in the Waves, Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2004

Unframed First Look, Sean Kelly, New York, NY, 2004

Underexposed, Tyler Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 2004

Hearth and Home, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY, 2003

John Knows Best, White Box Annex, New York, NY, 2003


SELECT PERFORMANCES, LECTURES, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

Johnathan Art Club, Visiting Lecture, 2025

ArtAffect Artist Bio Film Grant 2023

ArtAffect Grant, 2022

ArtAffect Artist Bio Film Grant 2022

Google Artist in Residency, 2020

Camera Obscura, Santa Monica Artist in Residency, 2019-2020

Artist’s Lecture Lighbox Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 2020

Artist in Residency 2019 Ladies’ Room, Los Angeles, CA

Guest Artist – Year of Light Workshop, Materials Lab, Harvard Art Museums, 2016

Dirt Palace Remix -- Living As Form, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2014

Querent /The Dirt Palace performance, PS1 MOMA, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Queens, New York, 2008

Artist Lecture, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York, 2007

The Good Good (in conjunction with AVAF), Hiromi Yoshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2006

The Good Good (in conjunction with AVAF), Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England, 2005


PUBLICATIONS AND ALBUMS

The Blashka Glass Flowers of Harvard University, Scala Publications, 2020

Wired Magazine, Making Beautiful Darkroom Images Without A Camera, 2019

Voyage LA Feature, 2019

Group Study, Unusual Colors, 2019

Mirror Door 2016 Artists’ Book with Music CD

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Photography Fellowship Award, 2014

Rhode Island Council on the Arts, Photography Merit Award, 2011

Modern Women, Women Artists at the, Museum of Modern Art, NY, Book, 2010

A And P Quarterly, Interview with the Women of the Dirt Palace, 2008

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