Draft:Natalia Fabia



Natalia Fabia (born April 3, 1983) is a Polish-American painter based in Southern California.

Over her decades long-career, her work has been featured in numerous magazines including: Vogue Italia, Elle Magazine, LA Weekly, VICE, The Los Angeles Times, NYLON Magazine, and Juxtapoz.

Her works have been described as "a testament to the modern woman."

Personal Life
Natalia Fabia was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Her parents immigrated from the Polish People's Republic, she is the eldest in the family.

Natalia Fabia currently lives in Orange County, California, along with her husband Jay Bentley and their two children. Peribeau and Dragon.

Career
Natalia Fabia is a graduate from ArtCenter College of Design's Illustration program. Fabia's career began in the 2000s by showing in various exhibitions around Los Angeles. She quickly established herself in the field of figurative painting, and her early works drew comparison to Toulouse-Lautrec in both style and content. She has been "described to represent the LA's new progressive women of the 21st-century" and credited for "re-inventing how we see the modern women."

Her early works are "filled with people, lush environments, ornate fashion, light interiors, glamour, graffiti, landscapes, punk rock music and an unapologetic sexiness." Whilst her later works, predominantly from her show Rainbeau Samsara, focused on "life cycles and the stages and emotions within those time frames, from birth to transition."

Natalia Fabia's works have been exhibited in international exhibits such as: Long Beach Museum of Art, Bakersfield Museum of Art, and the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.

Fabia is known for predominantly using oil and employing alla prima painting techniques.

Select Solo Exhibitions

 * 2016: Rainbeau Samsara, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
 * 2012: Punk Rock Rainbow Sparkle, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, NY.
 * 2012: Miss Hooker Beauty Pageant, Dragonfly, Los Angeles, CA.
 * 2012: Fashionable Aftertaste Without End, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

Select Group Exhibitions

 * 2020: Distilled Beauty: Select Artists from the 14th International Art Renewal Center Salon, American Legacy Fine Arts, Pasadena, CA.
 * 2020: Unjust Contenment, BeinArt Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
 * 2019: In Search of the Real III, LCAD Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA.
 * 2018: California Art Cub 107th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.
 * 2018: Painting the Figure NOW, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, WI.
 * 2018: Art Palm Beach, Sirona Gallery, Palm Beach, FL.
 * 2018: LA Art Show, Red Truck Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
 * 2017: Woman as Warrior, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL.
 * 2016: Instalarity, Curated by F. Scott Hess, Q Art Salon, Santa Ana, CA.
 * 2016: Scope Miami International Art Fair
 * 2016: POPAustin International Art Fair, Roger Gastman, Austin, TX.
 * 2015: Robert Williams' "Slang" & 20 Years Under the Influence of Juxtapose, Los Angeles, CA.
 * 2015: Invisible College, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, ID.
 * 2013: Risqué {Dirty Little Pictures}, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA.
 * 2012: The Contemporary Figure: Past and Presence, Lancaster Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA.
 * 2012: Hello Kitty, Hello Art!, Openhouse Gallery, New York, NY.
 * 2011: The Emergence of the Pop Imagest, Curated by Jonathan LeVine + Giovanni Bonelli, Venice, Italy.
 * 2010: Art from the New World, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, UK.
 * 2010: Sanrio, Small Gift, Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA.
 * 2010: ¡Sugipop!, Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, NH.
 * 2009: True Self, Curated by Gary Baseman, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, NY.

Select Awards

 * 2018: International Portrait Competition hosted by the Portrait Society of America, Finalist. Work was on the cover and featured in the August 2019 issue of American Art Collectors.
 * 2018: 13th International ARC Salon Competition, Finalist.

Film Appearances

 * 2018: "Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski," herself

Television Appearances

 * 2020: "The Bachelorette," Season 16, herself / art instructor
 * 2006/7: "Miami Ink," herself

Honors

 * 2010: Highlighted as one of "LA's 100" most fascinating people in LA Weekly's 2010 People Issue