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
August 2015 – May 2017 • Philadelphia, PA
Western Colorado University
BFA - Ceramics
2010 – 2014 • Gunnison, CO
Western Colorado University
BA Art History and Theory
– 2015 • Gunnison, CO
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
Philadelphia, PA
Adjunct Associate Professor
University of the Arts
Philadelphia, PA
Adjunct Instructor
Tyler School of Art and Architecture
Philadelphia, PA