Born 1980, Austin, TX. Lives and works, Brooklyn, NY
nataliegwenfrank@gmail.com
EDUCATION
M.F.A., Visual Arts, Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, NY, 2006 Fulbright Scholarship, National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo, Norway, 2004
B.A., Studio Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2002
L’École Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France, 2001
Slade School of Art, University College London, London, England, 1995, 1997, 1999
AWARDS
Nominated, Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2021 Nominated
Anonymous Was a Woman Award, 2020
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, 2020
Dieu Donné Sponsored Grant, New York, NY, 2019
Dieu Donné Workspace Program, Artist in Residence, New York, NY,
2015 Dong Kingman Fellowship, 2006
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Second Artist Grant, Quebec, Canada, 2005
Viar Merit Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2004, 2005
Fulbright Scholarship, Painting: National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo, Norway, 2004
Jonathan Edwards College Arts Prize, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2002
Sudler Grant, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, 2001
Robert Hilgendorf Traveling Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2001
Mellon Undergraduate Research Scholarship, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2000, 2001
BOOKS AND PERFORMANCE
2024
Aesop’s Fables: Arion Press, Artist Book, Fables by Lemony Snicket, design by Kiki Smith
Evil, drawings for the Paramount Plus TV series, written by Robert and Michelle King
2023
Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville, US Tour, Art and Artistic Direction
Edgar Allan Poe: Arion Press, Artist Book, Introduction by Ed Schad, curator at The Broad, LA, preface by Chris Semtner, director of The Poe Museum, VA
Tales of E.T.A Hoffmann, Drawings by Natalie Frank. Yale University Press. Translations and introduction, Jack Zipes. Preface, Karen Russell
The Crowded Room, drawings for the Apple TV Series, starring Tom Holland, Emmy Rossum, Amanda Seyfriend, written by Akiva Goldsman, directed by Kornél Mundruczo
2021
Collaboration with Paola Prestini (composer), Eve Gigliotti (soprano), Erin Pollock (artist), animations of drawings for Jar Full of Bees, a commission of new music and film for Beth Morrison and Paola Prestini’s Liederabend Festival, PBS/WNET
The Island of Happiness, Tales of Madame D’Aulnoy. Drawings and preface by Natalie Frank. Translations and introduction by Jack Zipes. Designed by Marian Bantjes.Princeton University Press.
2019
Grimm Tales. Commission for Ballet Austin. Artistic Director, Natalie Frank. Choreography by Stephen Mills. Set design by George Tsypin and Natalie Frank. Costume and textile design by Constance Hoffman and Natalie Frank. Animations by Howard Werner and Natalie Frank. Austin, Texas, March 29-31, Winner of 7 Critics Table Awards.
2018
O. Drawings by Natalie Frank. Lucia Marquand. In conjunction with solo exhibition, O, Half Gallery.
2016
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, An Anthology of Magical Tales. Drawings by Natalie Frank. Translations and edited by Jack Zipes. Princeton University Press.
2015
Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Drawings by Natalie Frank. Essays by Claire Gilman, Linda Nochlin, Julie Taymor, and Jack Zipes. Designed by Marian Bantjes. Damiani.
COLLECTIONS
The Ackland Art Museum
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Bunker, Beth de Woody Collection, Palm Beach, FL
The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
The Burger Collection, Hong Kong Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT
Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
The Morgan Library, New York, NY
The Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
The Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2024
The Inside Out, The Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg, Germany
2023
Pull, Cut, Thread, Mold, Collage, Purchase College, Purchase, NY
2022
Unbound, Drawing Survey: Natalie Frank, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, OH
Women Painting Women, The Fort Worth Modern, curated by Andrea Karnes, Fort Worth, TX, catalogue
2021
Women and Animals, Brattleboro Museum of Art, Vermont, curated by Elissa Waters
On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, organized by Elizabeth Hodermarsky, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Unbound, Drawing Survey: Natalie Frank, co-organized by The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI, curator Leah Kolb and The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, OH, curator Erin Dziedzic. Traveling, catalogue with essay by Alison Gingeras
Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2019
Dread and Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World, curated by Emily Stamey, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Dread and Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World, curated by Emily Stamey, Grinnell College Museum of Art (Faulconer Gallery), Grinnell, IA, artist talk
2018
Dread and Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World, curated by Emily Stamey, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, catalogue, artist talk
Body / Parts, Works from the Collection of Raymond J. Learsy, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
Paper/Print: American Hand Papermaking, 1960s to Today, curated by Susan Gosin and Mina Takahashi, International Print Center New York, New York, NY, catalogue
2017
Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Matisse: Selected Works from the Collection, Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, NJ
2016
Contemporary Artists Working in Paper at Dieu Donné, 2000-Present, Dedalus Foundation, New York, NY, artist panel
Contemporary Artists Working in Paper at Dieu Donné, 2000-Present, Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Natalie Frank: The Brothers Grimm, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY
Contemporary Artists Working in Paper at Dieu Donné, 2000-Present, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
2015
Natalie Frank: The Brothers Grimm, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas, Austin; artist talk
Natalie Frank: The Brothers Grimm, The Drawing Center, New York, NY; artist panel at the Sackler Center, Brooklyn Museum
The Artist Project, Season 1, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 120 short films of 120 contemporary artists
2014
Stars: Contemporary Prints by Derrière L’Étoile Studio, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2013
The Distaff Side, The Granary, Sharon, CT
2012
Designed to Win, 2012 Olympic Games, London Museum of Design, London, England
Figured Spaces: Selections from the John Morrissey Collection, Florida Atlantic University Museum, Boca Raton, FL, symposium led by Linda Nochlin, catalogue
2010
Regarding Painting, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, artist talk
2009
Reconfiguring the Body in American Art 1820-2009, National Academy Museum, New York, NY, artist panel
2008
Environments and Empires, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
2024
Animal Watch, 125 Newbury, New York, NY
2023
Maison Palo, Palo Gallery, New York, NY
The Raven and The Lion Tamer, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
In New York, Thinking of You. FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
Companion. Palo Gallery, New York, NY
2022
Wild. Palo Gallery, New York, NY
Monster Roster. Analog Diary, Beacon, NY
2021
Cross-Dressing for the Battlefield. Salon 94 and Lyles & King. Two solo exhibitions, in collaboration. New York, NY
2020
T Magazine, The New York Times. Artist Designed Holiday Cards, Made Exclusively for T
Don Quixote, Half Gallery, New York, NY Sympathetic Magic, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Fragmented Bodies, Albertz Benda, New York, NY
Eye to Eye, Collection of John Thomson, The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
All the women. In me. Are tired., curated by Jasmine Wahi, The Club, Tokyo, Japan
Abortion is Normal, curated by Jasmine Wahi, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York, NY
2019
Stranger Approaching, curated by Erin Leland, Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York, NY
Paint, Porcelain and Pulp: Amy Bessone, Francesca DiMattio and Natalie Frank, Salon 94, New York, NY
Paper View, The Hole, New York, NY
Trans World, Nicodim Gallery/Galeria Nicodim, Los Angeles, CA; Bucharest, Romania
Go Figure!, Curated by Beth de Woody, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Madame d’Aulnoy (Solo Presentation), Salon 94, Frieze, New York, NY Grimm Tales, Drawings for Ballet, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX Drawn Together, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
2018
UNSTOPPABLE, curated by Tanya Selvaratnam for Planned Parenthood, traveling
Inaugural Exhibition, Gavlak Palm Beach, Palm Beach, FL
My Silences Had Not Protected Me, For Freedoms/For Gansevoort, New York, NY
Hot Farce, Field Projects, New York, NY
We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident, mural, For Freedoms, The Corcoran, Washington, DC
The Un-Heroic Act. Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the US, Shiva Gallery, John Jay College for Criminal Justice, CUNY, curated by Monika Fabijanska, New York, NY, catalogue, artist panel
O, Half Gallery, New York, NY, publication, Lucia Marquand
Embodied Politic, curated by Anastasia Tinari, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, NY
Power, My Dear, Fempower collection, Flavorpaper, Hand-drawn wallpaper 2017 Engender, curated by Joshua Friedman, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Give Voice. A Postcard Project, LMAK books+design, New York, NY Gardens on Orchard, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY
Dancers and Dominas, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Piss and Vinegar, The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, artist panel: Peter Saul, Ken Johnson, Hilary Harkness, Natalie Frank
FemiNest, Equity Gallery, curated by Heather Zises and Melinda Wang, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident, mural, Ford Foundation Wall, New York Live Arts, New York, NY
2016
40 Years, Part 2, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Passage, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
Intermission, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
Face to Face, with Rachel Mason, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy ADAA, Solo-Presentation, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
I am a Lie and I am Gold, curated by Marco Breuer, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2015
Dieu Donné: Workspace Program 2015, Dieu Donné, New York, NY
Works of Paper II, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
Empire of the Senseless, curated by Thorsten Albertz, Friedman Benda, New York, NY
2014
Interiors and Openings, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
20th Anniversary, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
Sargent’s Daughters, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
Awkward Phase, 65 Maspeth, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, curated by Phong Bui, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
The Scene of a Disappearance, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
10 Under 40, curated by Isabella Icoz, Istanbul74, Istanbul, Turkey Excess, curated by Thorsten Albertz, Friedman Benda, New York, NY
Jew York, Zach Feuer, New York, NY
Vivere, 13 Artists Create 13 Backdrops: Mickalene Thomas, Douglas Gordon, Teresita Fernandez, Natalie Frank, Ron Gorchov, Dustin Yellin, Micheal Joo, Bosco Sodi, Ray Smith, James Siena, Douglas Gordon, Corban Walker, Adam Pendleton
The Golden Ass, Blinde Arte, Naples, Italy
2012
Group show, curated by Tom Sanford, Bravin Lee Programs, New York, NY
The Governed and the Governors, Fredericks Freiser, New York, NY
Pig Party, New York City, curated by Andrew Russeth and Jamie Sterns, New York, NY
Retrospective of S, curated by Sam Messer and Jonathan Safran Foer, Fredericks Freiser, New York, NY
My Noon, My Midnight, My Talk, My Song, Space SBH, St. Barth’s, France
Kim McCarty, Natalie Frank, Alyssa Monks, Jane’s Gallery, Eden Rock, St. Barth’s, France
Printed Histories: 16 Years of Print Portfolios at Exit Art, Exit Art, New York, NY 2011 Iconomancy, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Given a Miniscule Ledge, Norwood Club, New York, NY
A Room of Her Own; Co-curator, Lu Magnus, New York, NY
What the Thunder Said, Lu Magnus, New York, NY
Uncovered, Jane’s Gallery, Eden Rock, St. Barth’s, French West Indies
2010
Bare, Naked and Nude, in conjunction with Bram Dijkstra, Naked: The Nude in America, Noel Baza Fine Art, San Diego, CA
Fresh Apples, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009
The Return of the Horse, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
2008
Desire Comes Later, Arndt and Partner, Zurich, Switzerland
2007
I Like it a Little, V & A Gallery, New York, NY
Where She Stops, Mitchell-Innes and Nash, New York, NY
2006
School Days, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Unveiling, Briggs Robinson Gallery, New York, NY
LECTURES
2024
The Yale Center for British Art, CT
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2023
Yale University Podcast, The Traumatic Tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann, with Jack Zipes
2022
Yale University, Class on Art and Narrative, New Haven, CT
Artist Talk, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, OH
2020
Conversation with Helen Mann, The Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio, “As It Happens.” December 23
Conversation with Alison Van Denend, curator, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ The New Social Environment, #170:
Conversation with Phong Bui for the Brooklyn Rail
2019
New York Studio School, conversation with Claire Gilman, New York, NY
Grinnell College Museum of Art (Faulconer Gallery), Artist Talk for Dread and Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World, curated by Emily Stamey, Grinnell, IA
CAA, panel on Rape and Representation, curated by Jasmine Wahi, New York, NY
2018
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, talk with Jack Zipes: Grimm Tales and Collaboration
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Accelerator Series Program 5, #feminism?: Activism & Agitation in the Digital Age, curated by Isolde Brielmaier
2017
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Artist’s Eye Talk, conference: Inspiring Social Change, Roots of “The Dinner Party”: History in the Making, curated by Carmen Hermo
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, in coordination with As in Nature: Helen Frankenthaler Paintings, curated by Alexandra Schwartz, Williamstown, MA
Soho House, Dancers and Dominas at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, in coordination with Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors, Brunswick, ME
2016
Fashion Institute of Technology, Fairy Tales in Fashion, New York, NY
“Linda Nochlin,” College Art Association, Washington, DC
2014
Helena Rubinstein: Women Collectors and “Matrons” in Today’s World, POW Arts, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2013
Montclair Art Museum, Art Talk with Natalie Frank, Montclair, NJ 2012
Figured Spaces: Selections from the John Morrissey Collection, Florida Atlantic University Museum, Symposium with Linda Nochlin
Printed Histories: 16 Years of Print Portfolios at Exit Art, New York, NY, artist talk 2010
The Rose Art Museum, Regarding Painting, Brandeis University, artist talk
2009
National Academy Museum & School, Reconfiguring the Body in American Art 1820-2009, New York, NY
VISITING CRITIC
Brooklyn College, New York, NY
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Columbia University of the Arts, New York, NY
Elon University, Elon, NC
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Hunter College, School of the Arts, New York, NY
Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD
The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
The New York Studio School, New York, NY
New York University School of the Arts, New York, NY
Pratt Institute, New York, NY
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Vasaar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Yale University, New Haven, CT
PUBLISHED WRITINGS
2022
Frank, Natalie. “Dame Paula Rego, as Remembered by Artist Natalie Frank: ‘The Greatest Drawer and Printmaker of Our Time.’”
2021
Frank, Natalie. “What My Mentor, Paula Rego, Taught Me About Feminism, Drawing, and the Potential of a Well-Told Story
2019
Frank, Natalie. “Mentorship as Activism,” The Brooklyn Rail, March
Frank, Natalie. “Out of a Dark Wood,” Hand Papermaking Magazine, Winter
2018
Frank, Natalie. “The Un-Heroic Act: Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the U.S.,” Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York, NY
Frank, Natalie. “In the Discussion About the Sacklers and Oxycontin, It’s Important to Get the Facts Right,” Artnet News, January 28
2017
Frank, Natalie. “For Women Artists, the Art World Can Be a Minefield,”ArtNews, November 13
Frank, Natalie. “The Apprentice and The Authoritarian,” Modern Painters, May
Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors at Bowdoin College, Prestel 2015 Frank, Natalie. “Linda Nochlin,” The Brooklyn Rail, Summer
Frank, Natalie. “Tomi Ungerer by Natalie Frank,” BOMB, January 2014 Frank, Natalie. Edited by Margaret McCann. The Figure, Skira Rizzoli
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
“The O.G. 100.” Commissioned portrait of Narciso Rodriguez. Town & Country, March
Basbanes, Nicholas. “A Haunted Wonderland.” Fine Books and Collections, January 3
2023
Chiu, David. “Liz phair and Blondshell Ignite Sparks At Sold-Out New York City Show.” Forbes, November 25
The New York Times. “What to Do in New York City in November.” November 23
Manning-Schaffel, Vivian. “Liz Phair Remembers It All.” The Cut, New York Magazine, November 23
McKenna, Brittney. “’Liz Phair’s ‘Exile in Guyville’ Still Feels Powerful at 30.” Nashville Scene, November 22
Hirsh, Marc. “Once an exile, always an exile: Liz Phair’s trip back to ‘Guyville.”” The Boston Globe, November 15
Mapes, Jill. “Liz Phair on the Music That Made Her.” Pitchfork, November 20
Willman, Chris. “Liz Phair on Revisiting Classic ‘Exile in Guyville’ Album for Anniversary Tour, 30 Years After Thinking, ‘Oh No, What Have I Done...Holy S--!’” Variety, November 19
Taylor, Justin. “This Pioneering Master of the Uncanny is as Relevant as Ever. Two newly translated collections capture the brilliance of E.T.A. Hoffmann….” The Washington Post, Book Review, November 18
Schneider, Michael. Liz Phair’s ‘Exile in Guyville’ 30th Anniversary Tour Gives Disaffected Gen Xers Permission to Get Nostalgic: Concert Review.” Variety, November 11
Cascone, Sarah. “Rock Icon Liz Phair Brings Painter Natalie Frank on Tour to Create Her Sexy Stage Visuals.” Artnet News, November 10
Frank, Natalie and Liz Phair in conversation, Interview Magazine. “‘It was Minutely Personal’: Liz Phair Looks Back on 30 Years of Exile in Guyville.” November 2
Halperin, Julia. “Where do Henry Taylor, Kendrick Lamar, Liz Phair and Marco Brambilla Meet? The Concert Stage.” CULTURED, October 18
Guadagnino, Kate. “15 New York Galleries Show That Altered the Course of Contemporary Art.” T Magazine, September 25
The New York Times, Fall Preview. Liz Phair. September 4
Summer Small, Rachel. “Female Artist who served as Tom Holland’s Hand Double in The Crowded Room lifts the lid on what it was really like….” The Daily Mail, July 23
“The Secret Author of Our Dreams.” Excerpt of Karen Russell from The Wounded Storyteller. The New York Review, July 22
Saltz, Jerry. “See: Natalie Frank, Review”, New York Magazine, July 10
Artnet News, “See Natalie Frank’s Highly Charged New Artworks Filled with Women Taming Lions, Long-Lost Loves, and Tumultous Dreams.” July 5
Cox Gurdon, Meghan. “A Fevered Imagination: The Wounded Storyteller in Review.” The Wall Street Journal, June 10-11
“The Weekly Covet,” Town & Country, June 9
New York Magazine, The Approval Matrix, The Wounded Storyteller
“New Edgar Allan Poe Edition Binding Features Brick Dust From His Home.” Fine Books and Collections, February 23
2022
Karnes, Andrea. “Women Painting Women.” Del Monico Books
Bourbon, Matthew. “The Modern’s Sensational Women Painting Women Show Aims to Balance the Scales.” Dallas Morning News, June 23
Miller, Maggie. “Inside the Reception for Fort Worth’s Buzzy New Exhibit. Reflecting on the
Female Gaze.” Paper City Magazine, May 31
2021
“Review: 21c Liederabend Op. World Wide.” Opera News, June 27
Davidson, Justin. “25 Notable New Releases Over the Next Two Weeks.” Vulture, New York Magazine, June 21
Trouillot, Terence. “Which Gallery Shows to See in New York This frieze Week.” FRIEZE, May 21
Silveria, Paige. “Cross-Dressing for the Battlefield. An Exhibition by Natalie Frank at Lyles & King and Salon 94.” Purple Art, Purple Magazine, May 17
“A Closer Look. Selections from ‘The Island of Happiness’ by Baroness Madame d’Aulnoy, Drawings by Natalie Frank.” The Wall Street Journal, May 12
Rickman, Catherine. “The Island of Happiness: French Feminist Fairytales get a new translation.” Frenchly, May 7
Kunitz, Daniel. “A Conversation with Natalie Frank.” Sculpture Magazine, April 29
Kinsella, Eileen. “Editors Picks: 12 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Natalie Frank at Salon 94 to El Museo del Barrio’s ‘Triennial Talks.’” Artnet News, April 27
Kingsbury, Margaret. “10 Facts about Madame D’Aulnoy Who Coined The Word Fairy Tale.” Bookriot, March 29
2020
“Globetrotting. Your sneak preview of books in translation coming out in 2021, updated each season.” Spotlight, The Island of Happiness. The New York Times, December 23
Flood, Alison. “Pioneering fairytale author D’Aulnoy gets a rare English edition to herself.” The Guardian, December 21
Hutchinson, Cori. “By Women, For All: Interview with Her Clique Founder Izabela Depczyk and Contributing Artist Natalie Frank,” Whitehot Magazine, December
Corbett, Rachel. Editor’s Picks, Artnet News, October 27
Hung, Travis. “all the women. in me. are tired,” Vogue Taiwan, February 1
Steinhauer, Jillian. “A Show of Artists Galvanized by the Abortion Debate,” The New York Times, January 23
Crawford, Marisa. “50 Artists Remind Us That “Abortion Is Normal,” Hyperallergic, January 24
Feinstein, Laura. “Abortion is Normal: the emergency exhibition about reproductive rights,” The Guardian, January 13
Demopoulos, Alaina. “These Artists Want You to Know That ‘Abortion Is Normal,’” Daily Beast, January 13
Selvin, Claire. “With Reproductive Rights Under Siege in America, a New York Group Show Aims to Make a Difference,” ArtNews, January 9
Quick Take: Bloomberg TV. “Abortion is Normal’ Art Exhibition,” January 14 Pereira, Sydney.
“Abortion Is Normal’: Exhibition Raises Money For Planned
Parenthood Amid Attacks On Reproductive Rights,” The Gothamist, January 10
Cascone, Sarah. “Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin, and Other A-List Artists Are Raising Money for Reproductive Rights With a Provocatively Titled Exhibition,” Artnet News, January 9
Hardman, Savannah. “We Need to Normalize Abortion,” Paper Magazine, January 10 Holmes, Helen. “Marilyn Minter, Laurie Simmons Open ‘Abortion Is Normal’ Exhibition to Fund Planned Parenthood,” Observer, January 9
2019
Carrigan, Margaret. “Women artists fight for reproductive rights with US election fundraising show,” The Art Newspaper, December
“The September Openings: New York’s Must-See Shows,” Cultured, September
“Three Exhibitions to See In New York This Weekend,” The Art Newspaper, June
Faires, Robert. “The Critics Table’s Grand Tales, The winners of the 2018-9 Austin Critics Table Awards,” The Austin Chronicle, June
Barnes, Michael. “Ballet Austin converts Grimm Tales into a tour de force,” Austin 360, April
High, Thomas. “Grimm Tales at Ballet Austin,” d, April
Corbett, Rachel. “How Can a Simple Drawing Become an Epic Fairy-Tale Ballet? Artist Natalie Frank Describes Her Process,” Artnet News, March
Brenner, Wayne Alan. “Ballet Austin’s Grimm Tales Gets Brutally Frank,” The Austin Chronicle, March
Selvin, Claire. “Salon 94 Now Represents Natalie Frank,” ArtNews, March.
Crow, Kelly. “A Fairy Tale Ballet Gets Spooky,” The Wall Street Journal, March 28 Crow, Kelly. “Fashioning a Fairy-Tale,” The Wall Street Journal, March 28
Barnes, Michael. “Once upon a ‘Grimm’ fairytale: Ballet Austin debuts art-inspired dance,” Austin 360, March
Auber, Arianna. “Things to do in Austin the weekend of March 28-31,” Austin 360, March
Van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “Ballet Austin dances a vivid, unsettled version of Grimms’ Fairy Tales,” Sightlines, March
Paper City, “Dark Fairy Tales Take Ballet Austin to a Fantastical New World - Viewer Discretion Advised,” March
Shaddock, Lisa Collins. “Spinning Tales,” Paper City, March
Thurmond, Sarah. “Does Ballet Austin’s ‘Grimm Tales’ Have a Happily Ever After?” Austin Monthly, March
ACTX. “Top Ten: March 2019,” ACTX, March
Lansky, Chava. “Mixed Media Premieres Take the Stage,” Pointe Magazine, March
Tauer, Kristen. “Costume Designer Constance Hoffman, Artist Natalie Frank Team for ‘Grimm Tales’ Ballet,” WWD, January 14
Cascone, Sarah. “Artist Natalie Frank’s Dark Spin on the Brothers Grimm Is Being Transformed into a New Ballet,” Artnet, October 4
Broadway World, “Ballet Austin to Premiere Grimm Tales,” October
2018
Carrigan, Maggie and Victoria Stapley-Brown. “Three Exhibitions to see in New York this Weekend,” The Art Newspaper, November 1
Steinhauer, Jillian. “Female Artists on Rape’s Emotional Toll,” The New York Times, October 19
Cascone, Sarah. “Artist Natalie Frank’s Dark Spin on the Brothers Grimm is Being Transformed into a New Ballet,” Artnet News, October 4
Holmes, Jessica. “The Un-Heroic Act: Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the US,” The Brooklyn Rail, October 3
Stamey, Emily. Dread and Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World. Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Goslee, John and Heather Zises, Editors. 50 Contemporary Women Artists. Foreword by Elizabeth A. Sackler. Schiffer Publishing
Gray, Julia. “Infamous Erotic Novel ‘Story of O’ Inspired Natalie Frank’s Arousing Art,” Vice, June 11
Steinhauer, Jillian. “Natalie Frank. Art in Review, What to See in NY Galleries This Week,” The New York Times, June 6
Donahue, Katy. “Natalie Frank Tells the Story of “O” at Half Gallery,” The Impact Issue: Whitewall Magazine, Summer
Yau, John. “Natalie Frank’s Fairy Tale For Adults Only,” Hyperallergic, May 27
Frank, Priscilla. “A Notorious 1950s Erotic Novella Proves Just as Contentious In 2018,” Huffington Post, May 25
Mahaney, Emily. “When Feminists Censor Feminists,” Damn Joan, May 22
Gamble, Ione. “Twisted Portraits of Sex, Power and Feminine Desire,” Huck Magazine, May 10
Swanson, Carl. “When a Feminist Artist Is Censored by a Feminist Gallery,” New York Magazine, April 18
“Cultured Magazine’s Top 25,” Cultured Magazine, April
Carrigan, Margaret. “Natalie Frank on Fairy Tales and the Pornographic Imagination,” Elephant, March 28
Clemence, Paul. “Works on Paper,” Modern Magazine, March 8
Cryan, Liz. “Feminist Toile, Fempower, Brooklyn Artists: It’s All in Flavor Paper’s Latest Women-Designed Line,” Brownstoner, March 20
2017
Casale, Rocky. “These Women Muralists are Sparking a Social Dialogue in Cities Around the World,” Travel+Leisure, December 14
Neuendorf, Henri. “Show & Tell: The Artists of ‘Engender’ Are Reimagining How Painters Depict Gender,” Artnet News, November 9
Lehrer, Adam. “8 Artists on How Gender Functions in Their Work,” Untitled, November 8
James, Damian. “Powerful Strokes,” New City, Art, June 8
Cascone, Sarah. “Painter Natalie Frank on What New York City’s Dominatrix Community Taught Her About Art,” Artnet News, June 8
McDermott, Emily. “10 Female Artists to Watch,” Elle.com, May 9
Frank, Priscilla. “Mural Showcases 37 Real and Repulsive Things Politicians Have Said About Women,” Huffington Post, February 22
Sargent, Antwaun. “37 Politicians Get A Mural Dedicated to Their Most Shameful Comments About Women,” Creators: Vice Magazine, February 17
McCammond, Alexi. “How Six Artists Are Using Donald Trump’s Anti-Feminist Comments To Spark a Powerful Movement,” Bustle, February 15
Van Straaten, Laura. “A Generational Battle of Subversive Wit at Tribeca’s “Piss and Vinegar,” Artnet News, January 31
2016 Corbett, Rachel. “Natalie Frank and Zoe Buckman Create A Mural of Sexist Horror,” Artinfo.com, December 8
Donahue, Katy. “Zoe Buckman and Natalie Frank Won’t Let You Forget What Politicians Say About Women,” Whitewallmag.com, December 7
Frank, Priscilla. “Two Feminists Are Turning The Degrading Things Politicians Say About Women Into Art,” The Huffington Post, December 1
Brooks, Katherine and Priscilla Frank. “What It Means To Be An Artist in The Time of Trump,” The Huffington Post, November 18
Halperin, Julia. “Three New York Artists Share Their Advice for the Met Breuer,” The Art Newspaper, February 22
Hyperallergic. “Best of 2015: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows,” Hyperallergic, December 15 2015
Nance, Kevin. “6 Art Books for Holiday Giving,” Chicago Tribune, November 25
Schwabsky, Barry. “Natalie Frank. The Drawing Center,” Artforum (review), September
Mobilio, Albert. “Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Drawings by Natalie Frank,” Bookforum, September
The Week Magazine. “Natalie Frank: The Brothers Grimm,” August 28
Eichenwald, Wes. “Dark Fairy Tales,” Austin Way, August, 25
Brenner, Wayne Alan. “Sistering the Brothers Grimm,” The Austin Chronicle, August 14 Brenner, Wayne Alan. “How Many Fables in the Naked City?” The Austin Chronicle, August 13
Belcove, Julie. “Into the Woods Once Again,” Introspective Magazine, August 10
Steele, Colin. “Book reviews,” The Sydney Morning Herald, August 1
Van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “Natalie Frank re-imagines The Brothers Grimm,” The Austin American Statesman, July 21 (front page of Life+Arts)
Tse, Samantha. “Rewriting the Brothers Grimm,” Cultured Magazine, July
Friel, Katie. “Artist Spotlight: Natalie Frank and The Art of Coming Home,” Tribeza, July
McCollum, Caitlin G. “They Were Violent Times,” Texas Arts and Culture Magazine, July (cover)
Stockman, Sarah. “What To Do: Deliciously Dark, An Austin Native Reimagines Fables in Her New Exhibition,” Austin Monthly, July McDonald, Kelli.
“Blanton Exhibit Shows Dark Side of Brothers Grimm Tales,” Austinot, July 7
Artbookreview.net. “Tales of the Brothers Grimm with drawings by Natalie Frank,” July
Stockman, Sarah. “Deliciously Dark - An Austin native reimagines fables in her new exhibition,” Austin Monthly, July
Laster, Paul. “Natalie Frank: The Brothers Grimm,” Timeout, review, June 19
Yau, John. “Natalie Frank Delivers the News from Never-Never Land,” Hyperallergic, Weekend Edition, May 31
Budick, Ariella. “Natalie Frank: The Brothers Grimm, The Drawing Center, New York,” The Financial Times, May 20
Heiner, Heidi Ann. “Natalie Frank: Tales of the Brothers Grimm,” Sur La Lune, May 13
Epstein, Ian. “Natalie Frank’s Grim Fairy Tales Art,” Vulture, New York Magazine, May 7
Sturgeon, Jonathon. “Violent, Erotic Illustration for Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales,” Flavorwire, May 7
Duray, Dan. “Into the Woods: Natalie Frank’s Fairy Tales,” ArtNews, May 5
McDermott, Emily. “A Fairytale Nightmare,” Interview Magazine, April
The Art Newspaper. “Exhibitions, US & Americas: Ghastly tales for children, now in colour,” April
Boyer, Jake. “Exclusive: Natalie Frank on Painting Feminism into Fairy Tales,” Milk Made, April 22
Halle, Howard. “Critic’s Pick: Natalie Frank, The Brothers Grimm,” Time Out, April 15
Daniel, Daria. “Happenings Around Town,” Artnet News, April 13
Martinez, Alanna. “10 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before April 17,” New York Observer, April 13
ArtNews. “9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week,” April 13 Kinsella, Eileen.
“Natalie Frank Explores Gruesome Side of the Grimm Fairy Tales in New Drawing Center Show,” Artnet, April 10
Bradley, Paige K. Artforum.com. “500 Words: Natalie Frank on the Brothers Grimm,” April 7
Kazakina, Katya. “Not Safe for Kids: The Nudity and Torture Edition of Grimms’ Fairy Tales,” Bloomberg, April 2
Frank, Priscilla. “One Artist Rips Open Grimms’ Fairy Tales to Reveal Their Gruesome, Feminist Roots,” Huffington Post, April 2
Artspace. “10 Artists to Watch this April,” April 2
Shuster, Robert. “Natalie Frank: The Brothers Grimm,” The Village Voice, March 25-31
Bates, Rebecca. “Natalie Frank: The Brothers Grimm,” Nylon, April
Pignatelli, Benedetta. “Into the Art World: The Tastemaker,” Vogue Italia, March
Heddaya, Mostafa. ‘Met Museum Releases “Artists-on-Artists” Series,’ Artinfo, March 27
Guiducci, Mark. “Spring Art Guide: The 10 Must-See Shows of the Season,” Vogue.com, March 20
Modern Painters. “Tales From The Brothers Grimm: A Portfolio by Natalie Frank,” March
2014
Viglucci, Andrews; Siobhan Morrissey and Jane Wooldridge. “Happy art, happy people at Art Basel Miami Beach,” The Miami Herald, December 3
Hamer, Katy Diamond. “26 Female Artists on Lynda Benglis and the Art World’s Gender Problems,” New York Magazine, Vulture, November 23
Foliocue. “Meet the Artist: Natalie Frank,” November
Artnet News, Agenda: 8 Places to be this Week. “Panel Discussion: Women Collectors and “Matrons” in Today’s Art World at the Jewish Museum, November
Cultured Magazine. “Multidimensional,” Fall
Rosenberg, Karen. “The New Season: Art,” The New York Times, September 7
Artnet News. “60 Fall Gallery Shows You Can’t Miss,” September 3
Chicago Magazine. Listing: Rhona Hoffman Gallery, “Interiors and Openings,” September 5
Crow, Kelly. “This Art Star Believes in Fairy Tales,” The Wall Street Journal; slideshow BOMB. “Natalie Frank by Dasha Shishkin,” Spring
Laster, Paul. “Natalie Frank,” Modern Painters, January
2013
Schad, Ed. “Natalie Frank: ACME Gallery,” ArtReview, December
Pagel, David. “Natalie Frank makes a big, riveting mess at ACME,” The Los Angeles Times, November 1
Artweek, LA. “Natalie Frank: The Scene of a Disappearance,” October 16 Istanbul 74 Gazette. “Natalie Frank: QnA,” October
Frank, Priscilla. “Fall Art Exhibitions 2013: 25 Shows That Will Rock The Art World,” The Huffington Post, September 21
Frank, Priscilla. “She’s Watching You Watching Her,” The Huffington Post, September 18 Cocain, Sid. “Carnivalesque,” WHOA Magazine, Fall
Shiner, Eric. “Highlights from the Armory Show 2013,” Artsy.com, March
Kunitz, Daniel. “The Best Booths at the Armory Show: A Critic’s Take,” Artinfo.com, March 11
Goldstein, Andrew. “Close Look: 9 Highlights from the Armory Show,” Artspace, March
Russeth, Andrew. “Alsoudani, Bacon, Guston and Rego at Marlborough Chelsea,” GalleristNY, February
Loos, Ted. “What Does 2013 Hold for the Art World?,” Sothebys.com, January 2012
Kunitz, Daniel. “Dramatic Flair: A Painter Flourishes in Contradiction,” Modern Painters, October
Beer, Jonathan. “Unwritten Spaces: Natalie Frank,” Art-rated.com, October 19
Lindquist, Greg. “The Mad Bodies of Natalie Frank,” Art in America, October 15
Arison, Sarah. “Natalie Frank’s Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” Lifestyle Mirror,October
Frank, Priscilla. “Who’s Afraid of Natalie Frank?” The Huffington Post, October, 5
Wolff, Rachel and Jonathan Sanden. “Natalie Frank - Video: In Advance of Her New Show,” Artinfo.com, October 4
Duray, Dan. “10 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before October 6,” Gallerist: The New York Observer, October 2
Harkness, Hilary. “Natalie Frank: The Governed and the Governors,” Huffington Post, September 24, film
Wolff, Rachel. “Fall Preview 2012 - And We Are Also Anticipating,” New York Magazine, August 19
Miller, Michael; Jovanovic, Rozalia; Duray, Dan; Russeth, Andrew. “The 15 Hottest Artists of the Summer,” Gallerist: The New York Observer online, July 24
Martinez, Alanna. “The “Having It All” Debate: Rosa Lee Goldberg, Lisa Phillips, and Others on Career and Family in the Art World,” Artinfo.com, July 19
Martinez, Alanna. “Can Women in the Art World ‘Have It All’? Responses to The Atlantic’s Contentious Article,” Artinfo.com, July 17
Jovanovic, Rozalia. “Jonathan Safran Foer Co-Curates Retrospective Exhibition of Fictional Painter,” Gallerist: The New York Observer, June 13
Jovanovic, Rozalia. “Young and Fair: VIP Art Fair Puts MFAs’ Artworks up for Sale Online,” Gallerist: The New York Observer, June 5
Hirsch, Faye. “Round Table: Artists on Their Settings for the Brooklyn Museum Gala,” Art in America, April 20
Nathan, Emily. “Brooklyn Artists’ Ball 2012, Judy on My Mind,” Artnet.com, April
Hamer, Katy. “Studio Visit: Artist Natalie Frank, Brooklyn, New York,” Flash Art, January 3
Santo Domingo, Lauren. “APT with LSD: Bettina Prentice,” Vogue.com
2011
Kunitz, Daniel. “Critic’s Pick: A Room of Her Own,” Artinfo.com
2010
Dijkstra, Bram. Naked: The Nude in America. New York: Rizzoli
Schor, Mira. A Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life. Duke University Press
Thompson, Don. The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art. Palgrave Macmillan
2008
Turner, Stephanie Gonzales. “Natalie Frank at Mitchell-Innes & Nash,” Art in America, February
2007
“Goings on About Town,” The New Yorker, October 1 Finch, Charlie. “Frankincense,” Artnet.com, September 21
Cohen, David. “The Fineries of Figurative Painting,” The New York Sun, September 20
Schwendener, Martha. “Art in Review,” The New York Times, September 14
Cohen, David. “Art Starts on September 6,” The New York Sun, August 31
2006
Vogel, Carol. “Warhols of Tomorrow Are Dealers’ Quarry Today,” The New York Times, April 15
News and Features: “‘School Days’ at NYC’s Tilton Gallery,” ArtInfo.com
Crow, Kelly. “The (23-Year-) Old Masters,” The Wall Street Journal, April 14
Johnson, Ken. “Art Listings,” The New York Times, March 3
Douglas, Sarah. “Student Princes,” Art and Auction, March
Rosenberg, Karen. “An Hour in Chelsea: Three noteworthy New York solo debuts,” New York Magazine, February
Tomkins, Calvin. “Brush with Greatness,” The New Yorker, February
Finch, Charlie. “The Seduction of Natalie Frank,” Artnet, February