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Natalia Arbelaez’s work researches undervalued histories, such as, Latin American, Amerindian, and Women of Color. She works with how these identities are lost through conquest, migration, and time, gained through family, culture, exploration, and passed down through tradition, preservation, and genetic memory.
About Natalia Arbelaez
Natalia Arbelaez is a Colombian American artist, born and raised in Miami, Florida to immigrant parents. She received her B.F.A. from Florida International University and her M.F.A. from The Ohio State University, with an Enrichment Fellowship. In 2016-2017 she was a Rittenberg Fellow at Clay Art Center; Port Chester, New York and was awarded the Inaugural Artaxis Fellowship that funded a residency to Watershed in Newcastle, Maine. Her work has been exhibited internationally, in museums, galleries, and included in various collections, such as the Everson Museum and The Frederik Meijer Gardens.
She has been recognized by NCECA as a 2018 Emerging Artist and was a 2018-19 resident artist at Harvard University where she researched pre-Columbian art and histories. Natalia was recently an artist in residence at the Museum of Art and Design in New York City where she researched the work of historical and influential women ceramicists of color.
Natalia Arbelaez CV
EDUCATION
2015
Master of Fine Arts, Ceramics, The Ohio State University
2011
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, Florida International University
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Gallery 224, Harvard University, Passages of Absence, Exit Show, Allston, MA
2017
Clay Art Center, Stories of My Histories, Resident Exhibit, Port Chester, NY
2015
Urban Arts Space, Insignificant Grandeur, OSU MFA Thesis Exhibition, Columbus, OH
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Fitchburg Art Museum, Confronting the Figure: The Arthur Goldberg Collection, Fitchburg,
MA
Instituto Municipal de Ceramica, Simposio Internacional, Buenos Aries, Argentina
Te Auaha Gallery, Back Bone of Things, Fired up Festival, Wellington, New Zealand
2019
Reinberger Gallery, Getting to Know You, Cleveland, OH
Old Frog Pond Farm, Sculpture in the Orchard, Public Art, Harvard, MA
Bethany Arts Complex, Sublime Concepts, Ossining, NY
Veronique Wantz Gallery, You am I, Minneapolis, MN
The Workshop, Flesh for Fantasy, Minneapolis, MN
Copeland Art, Human Nature, Minneapolis, MN
Continental Clay, You Extra, Claytopia NCECA, Minneapolis, MN
2018
Gallery 224, Raise a glass a contemporary response to Harvard Art Museums Animal Shaped
Vessels from the Ancient World, Allston, MA
Sherrie Gallery, Nostalgia, Columbus, OH
Ori Gallery, Inheritance, Portland, OR
District Clay, US emerging voices, Washington, DC
Werkartz, CLAY-DO, Chinatown, LA
Arts Westchester, Triennial, White Plains, NY
Contemporary Craft, Visual Voices Truth Narratives, Pittsburg, PA
NCECA Emerging Artist Exhibition Cross Currents, Pittsburg PA
LAS (Latin American Status) NCECA organized by Natalia Arbelaez,Pittsburg Cultural Trust,
PA
2017
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Rodin and the Contemporary Figurative
Tradition, Grand Rapids, MI
American Museum of Ceramic Art AMOCA, We the People: Serving Notice, Pomona, CA
The Art Center Western Colorado, Contemporary Clay Biennial, Grand Junction, CO
2016
Art Boca Raton, Irreversible Projects, Booth 317, Boca Raton, FL
The Archie Bray Foundation, Beyond the Brickyard, Helena, MT
Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, De La Naturaleza, Columbus, OH
Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery, Landmark, CAW Showcase, Columbus, OH
400 West Rich, Promenade Gallery, Artist Showcase, Columbus, OH
2015
The Ohio Crafts Museum, Fresh Perspective, Columbus, OH
Brandt-Roberts Galleries, Convergence, Columbus, OH
SELECTED AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
2019
A. Eric Arctander Visual Arts Grant, Mahopac, NY
2018
NCECA Emerging Artist Award, Pittsburg, PA
2016-2017
Barbara Rittenberg Fellowship, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
2016
Artaxis Fellowship, Funded residency at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle
Jurors Award, Peter Beasecker, Archie Bray Beyond the Brickyard, Helena, MT
2013-2015
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2015
Studio Assistantship, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2012-2013
Graduate Enrichment Fellowship Award, The Ohio State University
2009-2011
Scholarship, College of Architecture + The Arts, Visual Arts Scholarship in the Department of Art & Art History, Florida International University
RESIDENCIES
2020
Women’s Studio Workshop, Studio Workshop Residency, Rosendale, NY
2019-2020
MAD Museum, Artist-in Residence, New York, NY
2018-2019
Office for the Arts at Harvard, Harvard University, Artist-in-Residence, Allston, MA
2018
RBeck and Harris Collaborative, Summer Collaboration Project, Reinbeck, NY
2016-2017
Clay Art Center, Artist-in-Residence Fellow, Port Chester, NY
2016
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME
2015
400 West Rich Artist Center, Artist-in-Residence, Columbus, OH Belden Brick
2014, 2015, 14, 13 Company, Summer Artist-in-Residence, Sugarcreek, Ohio
TEACHING / PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018-Present
Co-Founder, Organizer, The Color Network
2018-2019
Ceramic Instructor, Sculpture and Historical Ceramics, Harvard University, Ceramics Program, Boston, MA
Adjunct Professor, Ceramic Advanced Studio and Clay Studio, Sabbatical replacement, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2016-2019
Adjunct Professor, Ceramic Sculpture and Ceramics II, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
2016-2018
Ceramics Instructor, Figure, Sculpture, Wheel, The Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
2015-2016
3D Technician/ Tech Mentor, COSI Center of Science and Industry, Columbus, OH
2013-2015
Teacher of Record, Introduction to Low Fire, and High Fire The Ohio State University
SELECTED WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES
2020
Visiting Artist, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019
Visiting Artist, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Visiting Artist, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
Presenter, College Art Association, NCECA presents Clay, Stories, and Identities, New York, NY
2018
Visiting Artist, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Artist Talk and Installation, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
Visiting Artist, Otterbein University, Westerville, OH
2017
Artist Talk, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Rodin and the Contemporary Figurative Tradition, Grand Rapids, MI
2016
Visiting Artist, Ohio University Chillicothe, Chillicothe, OH
2015
Artist Talk Studio Assistants, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2020
Studio Potter Journal, Disrupting the Canon, Natalia Arbelaez, Northampton, MA
2019
Balearic infomag, Natalia Arbelaez,Palma, Illes Balears, Spain
American Craft, Passing the Baton, by Yinka Orafidiya, Minneapolis, MN
2018
Maake Magazine, Issue 8, Los Angeles, CA
Esteka Magazine, Natalia Arbelaez Descubriéndose, Santiago, Chile by Amanda Barr
The Washington Post, The American Character, Washington, DC by Mark Jenkins
2017
Hudson Valley Magazine, Celebrating Local Art with 15 of the Valley’s top Artists, Fishkill, NY
Hi Fructose, Natalia Arbelaez’s Ceramic Figures, by Andy Smith
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