Natasha Shoro

Natasha Shoro is a contemporary visual artist based In Southern California. Born in Ithaca, New York to Pakistani parents. Shoro's genres include abstract mixed media paintings to site-specific installations to address topics from her life experiences of being a woman with multi-cultural influences. She finds inspiration from her travels and is inspired by the aerial cartographies in nature. Natasha spent the first twelve years of her life traveling extensively as her father worked in the hotel management business. Living in the United States, Africa, Europe and Pakistan exposed Natasha to a wide range of languages and culture. This rich overlap of experience has had a profound influence on Natasha’s art making. Throughout her schooling both in the United States and abroad, Natasha has continued to be recognized and awarded for her accomplishments in fine art, experimenting with a variety of mediums. Graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design with honors and distinction from Iowa State University, Natasha spent her undergraduate years developing a body of work on paper and canvas using translucent acrylic washes inspired by Abstract Expressionism. Receiving two grants, one for her honors project Riding the Waves and the other for a Focus Grant Painting on Fabrics, enabled Natasha to explore various processes. Natasha competed in a regional art competition at the Brunnier Gallery and Museum in Ames, Iowa were her Ethnic series was honored as "best in show" at the Brunnier Gallery Museum. Natasha continues to exhibit internationally. Her work has evolved over the years and masters a variety of multimedia techniques. Natasha's passion for mark - making in drawing and painting encourages a journey of self-discovery and investigation of personal space and overlapping identity. Her international exhibitions and sold-out solo shows culminated into the Ethnic Identity Series of paintings, which were exhibited and sold at Marion Meyer Contemporary Art Gallery in Laguna Beach, California. She received her MFA in Drawing, Painting and Printmaking from California State University, Fullerton. Natasha’s Spatial Identity series expresses an ebb and flow, abstracted into threads, connecting her inner and outer spaces, fusing, weaving stitching together the fabric of her being resulting in an overlapping, entwined, layered Spatial Identity. A retrospective solo art exhibition that included work from a span of 25 years titled “Spatial Identity” showcasing 85 mixed media paintings at the Founders Hall Art Gallery, Soka University, an 8,000 sq. ft space. A commissioned mixed media site-specific installation piece measuring 11’h x 20’w was part of the collection as seen in the photo above.