Originally from Moscow, Russia, Natalia (Tashka) was born to a family of rocket scientists, but decided to wander off to seek fortune in the United States at the ripe age of 16. She settled to New York in the late nineties as a twenty something year old, with big dreams and little money.  

The city on the Hudson felt right because “New York is like Moscow in that it is pulsing with amazing energy, has incredible art, and can feel both anonymous and intimate at once.”  She did not inherit a math gene from her parents. Instead, she oscillated between the desire to express ideas visually, and her love of literature, finally realizing that today’s definition of art is not limited to one mode of expression.  “To be truly relevant, an art piece has to cross-reference many ideas and fields before it even takes on a physical shape.”

Her sculptures often reference bi-cultural texts, poetry, and draw on a theoretical background. She likes to think of her pieces as contemplative and interior, with a touch of irony and a pinch of the grotesque, intended to arouse, stir and unsettle all at once.

She has a studio in Brooklyn.