Bio

The daughter of an immigrant, Natasha Sweeten was born in Lexington, Kentucky and considers her youth a navigation between belonging and being an outsider. She grew up in college town suburbia and attended high school in rural southern Indiana, where she worked on a farm by sweeping parking lots and leading apple orchard tours for children. She studied painting and sculpture at the Cleveland Institute of Art (BFA 1993) and painting at the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College (MFA 1996).

Sweeten’s work has been included in various solo and group exhibitions and reviewed in The New York Times and Art in America, among other publications. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting and a PS 122 Space Fellowship, as well as artist residencies such as MacDowell and Yaddo. Collaborations with fellow artists include painting, sculpture, film, installation and a flag flying on a rooftop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Recently she has begun to curate exhibitions, and you can find her writing on current art shows at Two Coats of Paint. Today she lives and works in Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley.