Natalie Ball

(American | Klamath, born 1980)

Artist Natalie Ball (Klamath and Modoc) re-deploys and re-contextualizes Native American images and symbols to propose different narratives of Indigenous life in the United States. She explores racial narratives that are important to the understanding of both ourselves, the United States as a nation, and our shared experiences and histories.

Ball earned a Bachelor of Art degree in Ethnic Studies and Art from the University of Oregon and a Master of Art degree in Indigenous contemporary art from Massey University in New Zealand. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree (2018) in painting and printmaking from the Yale School of Art in Connecticut. She lives in her ancestral homelands in Chiloquin, Southern Oregon, where she raises her three children. She is enrolled in the Klamath Tribes, and is also of African-American, Modoc, and Anglo-American descent.