Natalie Kuenzi is an interdisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia, PA. She creates installations and sculptures from found and altered materials. Her practice explores traditions of craft and art making that celebrate the artist and viewer as agents of change. Through reclamation, material innovation, and the liberating power of the imagination, Kuenzi seeks to transform how we make and how we consume.

Natalie has an extensive background in education, serving as a faculty member at numerous universities and art centers, including Tyler School of Art and Architecture, University of the Arts, Drexel University, The Clay Studio of Philadelphia, and Tacony LAB Community Art Center. In 2023, she was honored with the G. Holmes Perkins Distinguished Teaching Award from the Stuart Weitzman School of Design at University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, Natalie is a member of Vox Populi, an artist collective Philadelphia, and her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at numerous arts spaces, including Vox Populi, Fleisher Art Memorial, The Clay Studio, Hales Project Room, Thomas Hunter Project Space, Artspace New Haven, The Delaware Contemporary, Susquehanna Art Museum, Pewabic Museum, Baltimore Clayworks, District Clay Gallery, and Anderson Center at Tower View.

Education

Tyler School of Art and Architecture

MFA - Ceramics

Western Colorado University

BFA - Ceramics

Western Colorado University

BA Art History and Theory

Exhibitions

Upcoming 2023

Group, TBD, Hicks Art Center Gallery - Newton, PA

2023

Group, Slapstick Polyphonies, Vox Populi - Philadelphia, PA

2023

Group, Little Windows: The Annual $99 Exhibition, Vox Populi - Philadelphia, PA

2023

Group, Material Time, Park Towne Place - Philadelphia, PA

2023

Two-Person Exhibition, Post-Consumer, Anderson Center at Tower View - Red Wing, MN

2023

Group, Upcycled! 2023 VanGo Exhibition, Susquehanna Art Museum - Harrisburg, PA

2023

Group, Light Lift, Unrequited Leisure - Nashville, TN

2022

Group, Vox Member Pop-Up Exhibition, Vox Populi - Philadelphia, PA

2022

Group, 99 Dollar Sale Exhibition, Vox Populi - Philadelphia, PA

2022

Group, In Loving Memory, Space 1026 - Philadelphia, PA

2022

Solo, It Came Up From the Soil, Fleisher Art Memorial - Philadelphia, PA (Wind Challenge Exhibition)

2022

Solo, Husk, Vox Populi - Philadelphia, PA

2021

Group, Winter Vox Member Pop-Up, Vox Populi - Philadelphia, PA

2021

Group, Future Ecologies, Vox Populi - Philadelphia, PA

2019

Group, IT’S A WRAP, Philadelphia International Airport - Philadelphia, PA

2019

Group, PostScript: Notions on Contemporary Craft, The Delaware Contemporary - Wilmington, DE

2019

Group, Keystone Clay: East, Baltimore Clayworks - Baltimore, MD

2019

Group, Material Message, Thomas Hunter Project Space - New York, NY

2018

Group, Notes on a Permeable Husk, Hales Project Room - New York, NY

2018

Group, Knew Member Show, Vox Populi - Philadelphia, PA

2018

Group, US: Emerging Artists in Clay, The District Clay Center & Gallery - Washington, DC

2018

Group, Ball Snake Ball, Artspace New Haven - New Haven, CT

2018

Group, The Seventy Sixers, NCECA Shipping Container Gallery - Pittsburgh, PA

2018

Group, Our Claymobile Teaching Artists, The Clay Studio - Philadelphia, PA

2017

Group, With Friends and Flowers, Floating on the Plastic Ocean, The College of New Jersey - Trenton, NJ

2017

Group, Graduate Student Biennial 2017, The Clay Studio - Philadelphia, PA

2017

Solo, We All Have The Sky, Temple Contemporary - Philadelphia, PA

2017

Group, FOUND, Little Berlin - Philadelphia, PA (Curated by Terrill Warrenburg)

2017

Group, Vision Margin, The Glass Factory - Philadelphia, PA

2017

Group, Not Here Not Home, Temple Contemporary - Philadelphia, PA

2017

Group, Dysfunctional, PEWABIC - Detroit, MI

2016 – 2017

Group, 215 | 610 Contemporary: Juried Exhibition of Regional Artists, The Gallery at Delaware County Community College - Philadelphia, PA (Juried by Pepón Osorio)

2016

Group, RBTL (Read Between the Lines), Katzen Art Center - Washington D.C. (College Art Association’s Annual MFA Exhibition)

2015

Solo, Light as Color as Earth, Gallery 126 - Gunnison, Colorado

2015

Solo, Form and Color, Taylor Hall – Western Colorado University - Gunnison, Colorado

2014

Solo, Static Transformation, Quigley Gallery - Gunnison, Colorado

Awards

2017

Master of Fine Arts Project Completion Grant, Temple University

2013

Brian Hirsh Ceramic Artist Award, Western Colorado University

Experience

Lecturer

University of Pennsylvania

Adjunct Associate Professor

University of the Arts

Adjunct Instructor

Tyler School of Art and Architecture