Natalie Pivoney is a contemporary oil painter, curator, educator, and co-op member of Purple Window Gallery in Chicago, IL. Her work nostalgically captures Midwestern life, bar scenes, campus culture, and cluttered apartments through colorful, illusionistic oil paintings. She has worked as an arts educator at the college and elementary levels, has juried and curated multiple exhibitions, been featured in multiple arts publications, and served as president for the Graduate Arts Association while at NIU. Pivoney has completed artist residencies in Galesburg, Illinois and Paonia, Colorado; won 1st place in the 2017 Imprints of the Mind exhibition at Dittmar Gallery, and won Juror’s Choice Award in the 2018 Ars Nova exhibition at the Jack Olson Gallery.
Dog’s Dead II
Oil on paper, 6 x 4 inches, 2017
General
Elgin, IL
b. 1990
Education
2013 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Art Education, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
2016 Master of Arts, Studio Art, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
2019 Master of Fine Arts, Painting, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2024 Pedestrian Party, Purple Window Gallery, Chicago, IL (w/ Amy Shelton)
2024 Keepsakes: Real and Imagined, ArtSpace Gallery, Black Hawk College, Moline, IL (w/ Angelina Diana)
2023 Chasing Dopamine, Purple Window Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 Games for May, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
2019 Drinking Games, The Varsity Center, Carbondale, IL
2019 Hard to Place, City Hall, Urbana, IL
2017 Moments, Side Street Studio Arts, Elgin, IL (w/ Chloe Topf)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Correlations, Studio Break Gallery, West Chicago, IL
2024 20th Regional Juried Show, Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL
2022 Rural, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2022 10th Annual Art Competition, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
2021 Metamorphosis: The Art of Transformation (online), Visionary Art Collective, Brooklyn, NY
2021 National Fine Art Show, Louisville Art Association, Louisville, CO
2021 All in the Family, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA
Residencies
2022 Elsewhere Studios Artist Residency, Paonia, CO
2018 Studios Midwest Artist Residency, Galesburg, IL
Publications
2025 Create! Magazine, Summer Issue #52
2024 I Like Your Work Magazine, Substance, 2024 Fall Exhibition Catalog
2022 Art+Type Magazine, Issue 4
2019 PIKCHUR Magazine, February 2019 issue
2019 Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studio Press, vol. 43, winter issue