Statement Profile GlogauAIR Project CV Summary

Statement

Natasha Katedralis is a multidisciplinary artist based on the unceded Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam territories, colonially known as Vancouver, Canada. Working with photography, collage, sculpture, writing and experiments in fashion, Katedralis’ practice extends a sensitivity to the material world through an orientation of close-looking and a playful approach to form. Drawn to the contrary ways that photography emphasizes, dramatizes, alters, and flattens its subjects, Katedralis is interested in the possibilities within the fraught translation of the “real” into “image.” Recent projects include Prop at City Centre Motor Hotel (2022, Vancouver), Connect Mention Rückenfigur at Liquidation World (2021, Vancouver), and a capsule fashion collection that was exhibited on the P.LU.R.O.M.A. SS23 runway at Liquidation World. Katedralis is a two-time nominee for The Lind Prize (2017, 2022).

Profile

GlogauAIR Project

Interested in photography’s contemporary imprint, I have been thinking of what it means when the personal and the collective is increasingly communicated and enclosed inside of images. Placing this question within a larger scope of material history, which the personal and collective emerge from, I’ve been conceiving of images as thin, temporary containers that separate themselves off from the environment albeit still requiring an atmosphere to circulate.

Part personal inquiry, part study into the changing possibilities of the photographic apparatus, Im working with imagery I captured in the fossilized landscape of Dinosaur Provincial Park (Alberta, Canada). Working the photographs into abstract compositions, I’m exploring questions of the body’s origins across themes spanning the matrilineal to the geological, through photographic and material modes.

CV Summary

Education

2018 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA

Exhibition

2022 P.L.U.R.O.M.A SS23, group show, Liquidation World, Vancouver, CA

The Lind Prize, group show, The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, CA Shortlist juried by Samuel Roy Bois, Emmy Lee Wall and Richard Hill

Prop, two person show with Aamanda Crain-Freeland, City Centre Motor Hotel, Vancouver, CA. Curated by Felix Rapp

2021 Connect, Mention, Ruckenfigur, (upcoming) group show, Liquidation World, Vancouver, CA. Curated by Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes

2020 100s Day, group show, Hatch Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA Curated by Kiel Torres and Claire Geddes Bailey

2019 Split Ends Cuckoo, group show, Carport, Ladysmith, CA Organized by Natasha Katedralis and Christian Vistan

2018 Works On Paper, group show, AHVA Gallery, Vancouver, CA Organized by AHVA Department Faculty

2017 The Lind Prize, group show, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, CA Shortlist juried by Stan Douglas, Grant Arnold and Helga Pakasaar

2016 I thought my discourse was true & pure, you promised!, group show, Audain Art Centre UBC, Vancouver, CA

2016 The Murmuring, group show, Hatch Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA

Curatorial

2023 P.L.U.R.O.M.A FW23, Liquidation World, Vancouver, CA, Co-organized with Katayoon Yousefbigloo

2019 Split Ends Cuckoo, group show, Carport, Ladysmith, CA Organized by Natasha Katedralis and Christian Vistan

Awards

2022 Shortlist Nomination, The Phillip B. Lind Emerging Artist prize. Jury: Emmy Lee Wall, Executive Director of the Capture Photography Festival; Richard Hill, The Smith Jarislowsky senior curator of Canadian art at the Vancouver Art Gallery; and Samuel Roy Bois, artist and Associate Professor in Creative Studies at The University of British Columbia, Okanagan.

2018 BMO 1st Art Award Nomination

2017 Shortlist Nomination & Honorable Mention, The Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize. Jury: Stan Douglas, Grant Arnold (Vancouver Art Gallery) , Helga Pakasaar (Presentation House Gallery)

2017 Andrew MacIntosh Memorial Book Prize in Fine Arts for Best in Show, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA

2016 Florence Muriel Smeltzer Scholarship, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA

Readings

2023 ‘Juicy Couture Mobius Strip’ performed at screening of Teasers, a film by Tiziana La Melia at nap gallery, Vancouver, CA

Collections

2015 University of British Columbia Print Media Collection, Vancouver, CA