Draft:Natou Fall

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Natou Fall
Natou Fall at Butter Art Fair in Indianapolis, Indiana, 2024. Photo by Azia Ellis-Singleton.
Born1993 (age 32–33)
Paris, France
OccupationsArtist, architect, educator
Known forvisual art, film, architectural theory, Shaping Face
Websitewww.natoufall.com

Natou Fall (born 1993) is a Senegalese-American multidisciplinary artist, architect, and educator based in Los Angeles, California. Her work spans sculpture, film, painting, makeup artistry, and architectural design, and examines Black femme identity, self-expression, sensuality, and the supernatural through spatial and material practices informed by architectural training.[1]

Early life and education

Fall was born in Paris, France in 1993 and grew up between Senegal, Europe, and the United States.[2] She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Architecture and Design from the Corcoran School of Art and Design at George Washington University.

She later completed a Master of Architecture (M.Arch) at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Her graduate thesis, Shaping Face, received the Frank and Bertha Gehry Prize.[3]

Career

Artistic practice

Fall’s multidisciplinary practice includes sculpture, painting, film, and makeup artistry. Her work frequently engages themes of beauty, identity, glamour, and transformation, often reclaiming aesthetics historically dismissed as superficial. She works with materials such as plaster, silicone, foam, fabric, plastics, and cosmetics, employing casting, assemblage, and surface treatments to explore tension between softness and structure.[4]

Her work has been exhibited at venues including Butter Fine Art Fair, Context Projects, Gallery 90220, Band of Vices, The Line Hotel, and SoHo House.[5][6]

She has discussed the use of early generative artificial intelligence text generators as part of her conceptual and visual development process for film and art projects.[7]

Architecture and teaching

Fall’s architectural work focuses on identity, ornamentation, and self-construction. Her thesis project Shaping Face reframed architectural “cosmetics” as an expressive and empowering design strategy, drawing inspiration from makeup artistry and local architectural typologies.[8]

She later joined the faculty at SCI-Arc, where she teaches design studios and seminars addressing materiality, representation, and new modes of architectural thinking.[9]

Public engagement

Fall has participated in public discussions on architecture and culture, including conversations at SCI-Arc that addressed architectural education, representation, and contemporary design discourse. She was featured in coverage of a visit by Kanye West to SCI-Arc, where she guided discussion around student work and broader cultural questions in architecture.[10]

Artistic philosophy

Fall’s work emphasizes the face as a dynamic site of identity, transformation, and narrative. Her writing and practice challenge dominant Western frameworks of beauty and architecture, integrating joy, rage, sensuality, and mysticism within queer diasporic contexts.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Bio". natoufall.com.
  2. ^ "Bio". natoufall.com.
  3. ^ Guimapang, Katherine (December 23, 2019). "Thesis Review: Natou Fall Problematizes Superficiality in Architecture Through the Lens of Self-Expression and Self-Construction". Archinect.
  4. ^ "Bio". natoufall.com.
  5. ^ "Butter Art Fair debuts in Inglewood for LA Art Week". Fox LA — Local News & Weather (Good Day LA live news interview). February 26, 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ "Snapshot & Scenes: black in every color. Art in Every Form - A FRIEZE Exhibition". The Line Hotel.
  7. ^ Macaulay, Scott (December 15, 2022). "Artists on Using Midjourney and Generative AI". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 6 January 2026.
  8. ^ Guimapang, Katherine (December 23, 2019). "Thesis Review: Natou Fall Problematizes Superficiality in Architecture Through the Lens of Self-Expression and Self-Construction". Archinect.
  9. ^ "Faculty: Natou Fall Talks Architecture". SCI-Arc. June 11, 2021.
  10. ^ Anderton, Frances (May 16, 2018). "Deconstructing Kanye". KCRW.
  11. ^ "Artist Statement". natoufall.com.

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