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 and is currently in the process of obtaining her Masters of Fine Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, British Columbia. Some recent works and events include participation in the 2024 AUArts Summer Residency (Calgary, AB), completed a residency and exhibited at the 2025 New York Academy of Art Summer Residency (New York City, NY), received the Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP 2024 Indigenous Artists Award (Calgary, AB), commissioned by MobSquad to design a Caravan for the Chuckwagon races at the 2025 Calgary Stampede, additionally, as well as having Thunderbird (2025) collected by the Glenbow Museum (Calgary, AB).