arteles_catalogue_2014

IN THE RESIDENCY
August 2014
NATHALIE COLLINS
USA
nathalie.collins25@gmail.com // www.nathaliecollins.us
I am originally from Anchorage, Alaska, currently living in
Brooklyn. Growing up in an environment that was wild, where
everything was extreme had a huge impact on my work. My work
has a fragility and a physicality that evokes the rugged but subtly
formed and changing mountains, tundra, and glaciers of Alaska. I
have a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an
MFA from Pratt. The rigor of both these programs, and being with
communities dedicated to creative work nurtured me as an artist.
Since school I have mostly lived in New York, where I share a
studio and belong to a cooperative gallery. In addition to making
work, my life focuses on community building and spending time
feeling my way into the visual arts culture of this time and place.