BIOGRAPHY

Contemporary Indigenous-Canadian painter and jeweller, Natasha Walter-Pinay (b. 2003), focuses her theme on navigating the complexities of belonging to multiple identities and the feeling of not being able to truly connect to either as a result of past and current events. Natasha primarily works in oil paint on canvas, taking traditional painting techniques into a contemporary context through semi-abstraction and the displacement, obscurement, or erasure of figures. Natasha has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts) in Calgary, Alberta, where she also participated in the the 2024 AUArts Summer Residency, and received the Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP 2024 Indigenous Artists Award.