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