Natou Fall

Born in Paris, France, Natou Fall is a Senegalese-American interdisciplinary visual artist and creative director working across sculpture, film, makeup artistry, and design. 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’s developed procedural techniques of material layering, casting, assemblage, and digital techniques of collage, illustration, and 3D visualization. Their material palette includes plaster, silicone, cosmetic products, molded and printed plastics, fabric, high density foam, and various papers and paints.

After receiving a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Interior Architecture and Design from the George Washington University, they went on to study at SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture). In September of 2019 they received the Frank and Bertha Gehry Prize for their graduate thesis installation Shaping Face.

Fall has been commissioned by brands like Sonos and Ami Colé, and worked on productions for performing artists Janelle Monae, Idman, and D’Smoke. They are currently design studio faculty at SCI-Arc, and working on projects of varied scale in Los Angeles, CA.