Natalie Frank, All Fur III (Grimm’s Fairy Tales), 2011-14. Gouache and chalk pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches. Courtesy of the artist.

New York-based painter Natalie Frank was born in Austin, Texas in 1980. She earned an M.F.A. in visual arts at Columbia University’s School of the Arts in 2006 and holds a B.A. in studio art from Yale University. In 2003-2004, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for study at the National Academy of Fine Art in Oslo, Norway. In 1997 and 1999, Frank attended the Slade School in London.

Selected solo exhibitions include The Drawing Center, NY; The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin; The Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; ACME, LA; Fredericks&Freiser, NY; Arndt and Partner, Zurich; Mitchell-Innes and Nash, NY. Selected group exhibitions: The Weatherspoon Museum, NC; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, ME; The Montclair Museum of Art, NJ; Istanbul74, Turkey; The London Museum of Design, UK; The Rose Art Museum, MA; Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; The National Academy Museum, NY; Arndt and Partner, Berlin, Germany; and Jack Tilton Gallery, NY. Frank has collaborated with the fairy tale scholar Jack Zipes in drawings based on his translated text in Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Drawings by Natalie Frank (Damiani 2015); The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Princeton University Press 2016) and the forthcoming volume, Madame d’Aulnoy (Princeton University Press 2019). In 2019, she will collaborate with the Austin Ballet on a new production based on Grimm’s fairy tales, designing sets and costumes.

Frank’s work is represented in numerous collections, including Ackland Art Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago; The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin; The Berger Collection, Hong Kong; The Bowdoin Museum of Art, ME; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; The Hall Art Foundation; The Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; The Kentucky Art Museum; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; Montclair Art Museum, NJ; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA; The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; The Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA.

Natalie Frank’s work has been covered in national and international publications and media outlets such as Art and Auction; Art in America; Art Review; Artinfo.com; Artnet News; BOMB; Flash Art; The Huffington Post; The Los Angeles Times; Modern Painters; New York Magazine; The New York Observer; The New York Times; The New Yorker; and The Wall Street Journal. She has been a visiting artist at Brooklyn College; Cranbrook Academy; Hunter College; Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art; The New York Academy of Art; The New York Studio School; New York University; Pratt; The School of Visual Arts; and Yale University.