Born in Paris, France, Natou Fall is a Senegalese-American multidisciplinary visual artist working across sculpture, film, and make-up artistry. Fall’s storytelling explores themes of nostalgia, transnationalism, the black femme experience, sensuality, spirituality, and the supernatural. Their practice embraces notions of multiplicity, glamour, and the self, to embolden radical self-acceptance, and challenge classical notions of beauty rooted in whiteness and heteronormativity.
Trained as an architect, Fall developed casting, assemblage, and collage techniques. Their material palette includes plaster, silicone, cosmetic products, molded and printed plastics, fabric, high-density foam, and various papers and paints.
After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Architecture and Design from the Corcoran School of Art & Design at George Washington University, they went on to study at SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture). In September 2019, they received the Frank and Bertha Gehry Prize for their graduate thesis installation Shaping Face.
Fall’s work has been exhibited at venues such as Butter Art Fair, Gallery 90220, Band of Vices Gallery, The Line Hotel, and SoHo House. They have collaborated with brands like SolidNature, Sonos, and Ami Colé. Currently, they are design studio faculty at SCI-Arc and are working on projects of varied scale in Los Angeles, CA.