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NATALIE KRICK 

Born 1986. Portland, OR

Lives & Works. Seattle, WA

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

2024 Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film. LACMA. Los Angeles, CA

2024 Boren Banner. Frye Art Museum. Seattle, WA

EDUCATION

2012 MFA Photography. Columbia College Chicago. Chicago, IL

2008 BFA Photography. School of Visual Arts. New York, NY

SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024

o_ Man! Silver Eye. Pittsburg, PA

Promise you’ll make me up. Mini Mart City Park. Seattle, WA 

2023

Gust. 987 Mercer Avenue. Seattle, WA


2022

Rewriting Art History. Photographic Center Northwest. Seattle, WA

2021

Repetition Suppression. Specialist. Seattle, WA

2020

Rhymes of Confusion. SF Camerawork. San Francisco, CA

Recent Works. Sarah Spurgeon Gallery at Central Washington University. Ellensburg, WA

2019

Natural Deceptions. Blue Sky Gallery. Portland, OR

Natural Deceptions. Riverside Arts Center. Riverside, IL

2018

Natural Deceptions. Fairbanks Gallery. Corvallis, OR

APOCALYPSTICK. GLASSBOX. Seattle, WA

2017

Natural Deceptions. Aperture Foundation. New York, NY

Further from my body: Natalie Krick and Sadie Welchsler. SAD Gallery. Seattle, WA

2014

Natural Deceptions. Notre Dame Photography Gallery. South Bend, IN

Natural Deceptions. CoRK Arts District. Jacksonville, FL

2013

Natural Deceptions. The Coat Check. Chicago, IL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

OFF-SPRING: New Generations. 21 C Museum Hotel. Chicago, IL

2022

Refracting Histories. Museum of Contemporary Photography. Chicago, IL

Beyond the Frame. Museum of Contemporary Photography. Chicago, IL

OUTS. Filter Photo. Chicago, IL

Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Curated by Industry of the Ordinary. Design Museum. Chicago, IL

Embodiment: Gender in the Expanse. Hedreen Gallery. Seattle, WA

Subject Object. St. Lawrence University. Canton, NY

2021

Collaborating with the Archive. Filter Photo. Chicago, IL

Altered Grain. Stay Home Gallery. Paris, TN

2020

Photography & _______. Catherine Edelman Gallery. Chicago, IL

ROLL CALL. Study Hall Gallery at PrattMWP. Utica, NY

2019

In this body of mine. Layton Gallery. Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. Milwaukee, WI

Go Down Moses curated by Teju Cole. Museum of Contemporary Photography. Chicago, IL

Riffs: A Residency & Works-in-Progress Exhibition. Photographic Center Northwest. Seattle, WA

REAL Fashion Photography. Lois & David Stulberg Gallery. Ringling College. Sarasota, FL

2018

UNSEEN. Aperture Foundation. Amsterdam, Netherlands

IMAGE. Messums Wiltshire. Wiltshire, UK

Aluminati. School of Visual Arts. New York, NY

2017

A Strange Beauty. Jeju Natural Cosmetic Fair. Seoul, South Korea

Notions of Home. Photographic Center Northwest. Seattle, WA

Out of Sight. Seattle, WA

NSFW Female Gaze. Museum of Sex. New York, NY

2016

The Billboard Creative curated by Mona Kuhn. Los Angeles, CA

Just Visiting. SOIL. Seattle, WA

Paper Journal. Webber Represents. London, United Kingdom

Your body is a battleground. Weinberg/Newton Gallery. Chicago, IL

A person is a noun. Dean Jensen Gallery. Milwaukee, WI

2015

Open Call. Guate Photo. Guatemala City, Guatemala

Performing Mythologies. Colorado Photographic Arts Center. Denver, CO

Sitter. Canzani Center Gallery. CCAD. Cleveland, OH

Photobook Melbourne Award Exhibition. Melbourne. Australia

2014

Aperture Summer Open. Aperture Foundation. New York, NY

A Strange Likeness. Gallery 249. University of Dayton. Dayton, OH

2013

Chicago Style. David Weinberg Gallery. Chicago, IL

EGO Exploitation, Glorification & Objectification. Zhou B Art Center. Chicago, IL

FotoFilmic. Positive Negative Gallery. Vancouver, Canada

Sense Boutique. Milwaukee Avenue Art Festival. Chicago, IL

Archetype Drift. Johalla Projects. Chicago, IL

Hysteria: visualizing female anxiety. 1103 N California. Chicago, IL

Family. Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography. Detroit, MI

2012

Light. David Weinberg Gallery. Chicago, IL

Weisman Exhibition. Arcade Gallery. Chicago, IL

f8 MFA Photography Thesis Exhibition. Glass Curtain Gallery. Chicago, IL

2011

Snapshot: inventing the everyday. I am Logan Square. Chicago, IL

Weisman Exhibition Arcade Gallery.. Chicago, IL

Pingyao Photography Festival. Pingyao, China

2010

Relative Exposure. 310 ConTEMPORARY Gallery. Chicago, IL

2008

Mentors. Visual Arts Gallery. New York, NY

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2022 Project Space Residency. Visual Studies Workshop. Rochester, NY

2019 Sou’wester Artist Residency. Seaview, WA

2019 RIFFS Residency. Photographic Center Northwest. Seattle, WA

2017 Aperture Portfolio Prize. New York, NY

2015 Aaron Siskind Foundation. Individual Photographer's Fellowship. New York, NY

2014 Artist in Residence. CoRK Art District. Jacksonville, FL

2013 South Logan Arts Coalition Studio Residency. Chicago, IL

2012 Albert P. Weisman Award. Columbia College Chicago. Chicago, IL

2011 Albert P. Weisman Award. Columbia College Chicago. Chicago, IL

2009-2012 Follett Fellowship Award. Columbia College. Columbia College Chicago. Chicago, IL

PUBLICATIONS

2022 OUTS. Skylark Editions. Chicago, IL

2021 A New Nothing. Sleeper Studio. Pittsburgh, PA

2019 Go Down Moses by Teju Cole. Candor Arts and the MoCP. Chicago, IL

2017 Natural Deceptions. Skylark Editions. Chicago, IL

2015 Unlocked. ATOPOS cvc, Athens, Greece

ARTIST LECTURES

2020 Central Washington University. Ellensburg, WA

2019 Arnold Flaten Memorial Artist Series. St Olaf College. Northfield, MN

2019 Photographic Center Northwest. Seattle, WA

2018 Cornish College of the Arts. Seattle, WA

2017 Hallmark Lecture Series. The University of Kansas. Lawrence, KS

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2016-Present Photographic Center NorthWest. Seattle, WA

2022-Present University of Washington. Seattle, WA

2017-2018 Cornish College of the Arts. Seattle, WA

SELECTED PRESS, INTERVIEWS AND FEATURES

Variable West. Love Letter to Natalie Krick. Tom Winchester.

BOMB. Restaging Family. Kim Beil

Exposure. Little Hollywood Tricks. Interview with Tom Winchester

Vogue Italia. You and Me, Forever by Chiara Bardelli Nonino

Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Focal Point Podcast. Lisa Lindvay and Natalie Krick in conversation with Karen Irvine

Try Harder PDX. Natalie Krick at Blue Sky Gallery

Lens Culture: Natural Deceptions: Disorienting and Deceiving Portraits of Womanhood by Emily Shapiro

City Arts: Chromophobia & Apocalypstick: The Alluring Photos of Natalie Krick by Margo Vansynghel

The New Yorker. The Photographer Who Makes Her Mother an Object of Desire By Alexandra Schwartz

PDN. Natalie Krick plays with fashion and beauty ideals in a new book. By Conor Risch

NATURAL DECEPTIONS. Published by Skylark Editions

Aperture. Future Gender. Natalie Krick’s Natural Deceptions By Rebecca Bengal

Latitude 47. Issue #4 Notions of Home

Aint Bad: Interview with Rachel Jump

Raw View 07 Women Looking at Women. Curated by Susan Meiselas

Rabbit Rabbit 01 Transition published by Big Bad Bettie Press

IRIS. curated by The Blush Room and Violet Strays

Strange Fire Collective: Interview with Jess Dugan

Wavepool

New Directions: Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography

Landscape Stories 18 : Family

The Photographer Discloses: Some Truth, Some Lies Interview with Abigail Smithson

Unlocked. Published by ATOPOS cvc, Athens

Musée Magazine. Women

Give an Onion

Telephone Weekly. Issue # 22

Slate: Ask Yourself What’s Wrong With These Portraits

Marie Claire South Africa. “Obsession with youth”

Of the Afternoon. Issue # 3

Blink Magazine. Issue # 26

Natural Deceptions. Newsprint. The Coat Check Gallery

Lintroller: Natalie Krick Natural Deceptions

It’s Nice That: Meet Natalie Krick, the photographer who's always with her mum

M&C Saatchi Corporate Gallerie: Natalie Krick Natural Deceptions

Lenscratch: Natalie Krick: Natural Deceptions

Image 37: Matthew Avignone on Natalie Krick’s Natural Deceptions at The Coat Check

Sixty Inches From Center: Beautiful Tension: A Conversation with Tempestt Hazel

The Huffington Post: Natalie Krick's 'Natural Deceptions' Photos Use Her Mom To Expose The 'Artifice' Of Sexy

The Cut: Photographer Natalie Krick Shoots Her Mom in Sexy Poses

Prism Magazine. Issue # 7

Finite Foto. Issue Seventeen:Vice

Supermassiveblackhole. Issue 11 Picturing You


Natalie Krick (b. 1986 Portland Oregon) is a Seattle based artist whose work investigates visual perception and pleasure through complicating the act of looking. She holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA from Columbia College Chicago. In 2015 Krick was a recipient of an Individual Photographer's Fellowship from the Aaron Siskind Foundation for her project Natural Deceptions. In 2017 Natural Deceptions was published by Skylark Editions and Krick was awarded the Aperture Portfolio Prize. Krick’s work has recently been exhibited at SF Camerawork, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Aperture Foundation, The Museum of Sex, and Blue Sky Gallery. Her photographs has been highlighted in several international publications including BOMB, The New Yorker, Vogue Italia, PDN, Aperture, and Vrij Nederland.

Krick is self-represented and welcomes inquiries about sales and assignments.

Contact natalieelizabethkrick@gmail.com

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