Natalie Ball

Natalie Ball (1980, Portland, Oregon, USA) lives and works in Southern Oregon/Northern California. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Indigenous, Race & Ethnic Studies & Art from the University of Oregon, USA (2005). She obtained her Master’s degree with a focus on Indigenous contemporary art at Massey University, Aotearoa, New Zealand in 2010 and in 2018, Natalie earned her M.F.A. degree in Painting & Printmaking at Yale School of Art, USA. Ball’s art practice includes installation art, performance art, mixed-media textile art, sculpture, painting, and printmaking. Her work is rooted in her heritage as an Afro-Indigenous citizen of the Klamath Nation and she uses materials and engages with narratives that point to her ancestors. She seeks to complicate and broaden understandings of Indigenous culture, identity, and representation. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues including: Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom (2021); Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2021); Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, California, USA (2020); Half Gallery, New York, New York, USA (2020); Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada (2019); Gagosian, New York, New York, USA (2019); Seattle Art Museum, Washington, USA (2019); Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France (2019) and SculptureCenter, New York, New York, USA (2019). Natalie Ball received the 2020 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters & Sculptors and the 2020 Hallie Ford Foundation Fellow from The Ford Family Foundation. Her work is part of several prestigious collections as: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA; Rubell Museum. Miami, Florida, USA and KunstMuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, among others.