Natori Green creates interdisciplinary art, knitwear and fashion addressing environmental issues and identity. Highlighting native Louisiana plants and African American figures with cut out hairstyles filled with reflective materials encompass her paintings, drawings, and prints, which mostly comprise intricate exterior and domestic scenes. Green has exhibited in California, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, and her home state Louisiana.
SELECTED SOLO
2021 Magnolia Mirth, Second Story Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2016 Reappearance of Modern Happiness, Second Story Gallery, New Orleans, LA
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 Courtney Egan: Eco Tone with Natori Green
2022 Extinct into the Wild with Courtney Egan, Arthur Roger Gallery,New Orleans, LA
2021`Care & Cultivation with Courtney Egan, Dunleith Historic Inn, New Orleans, LA
2020 Extinct in the Wild with Courtney Egan, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University
2020 Sisters Solidarity with Amy Bryan, Second Story Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2019 Reflections with Amy Bryan, Second Story Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2018 Woven with Amy Bryan, Second Story Gallery, New Orleans, LA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS
2024 Green Surfaces, The Front Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2023 Louisiana Fish and Wildlife, Arabi Visual Arts, New Orleans, LA
2023 Conversations on the Bayou, Artspace 3116, New Orleans, LA,
2022 Decoration at the End of the World, Staple Goods Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2021 Resuscitation, Second Story Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2021 Captured Fragments, Second Story Gallery, LA
2020 Reconstruction 2020, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2020 Perseverance, Second Story Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2020 Conversations, Artspace3116, New Orleans, LA
2020 Hot Future, 912 Julia Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2020 Full Color, Kirschman ArtSpace, New Orleans, LA
2019 Group Show, Tigermen Den Gallery, New Orleans, LA,
2019 Dialogue, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2019 Something Old / Something New, Second Story Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2019 Memento Mori, Second Story Gallery, Second Story Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2018 10 years at The Front, The Front Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2018 The Listening Body, ArtEgg Studio, New Orleans, LA
2018 Figure + Ground, Issac Delgado Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2018 Parts Unknown, Staple Goods Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2018 Coop Members and Collaborators, Second Story Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2018 Painting Our Own Story - Singing Our Own Song, The McKenna Museum of African American Art,New Orleans, LA
2017 Painters painting Painters at Lusher, Lusher High School, New Orleans, LA
2017 Continued Dreamers, 5 Press St Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2017 One Minute to Midnight, Second Story Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2017 Painters Painting Painters Group Show, NOCCA Kirschman Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2017 Second Story Group Show, Second Story Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2016 October Roux Carre Arts Market, Roux Carre, New Orleans, LA
2016 September Roux Carre Arts Market, Roux Carre, New Orleans, LA
2016 Refractional Presence, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2016 Big (Un) Easy, Second Story Gallery , New Orleans, LA
2016 Urban Eyes - 3rd Annual New Orleans Natural Hair Expo, New Orleans Center for Contemporary Arts, New Orleans, LA
2016 Scoopomania, Second Story Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2016 Donuts and Daiquiris, The Front Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2016 Delgado Visual Communications Student Art Show, Issac Delgado Fine Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2016 The Moleskine Postal Mailer Project, Tempus Projects Gallery, Tampa, FL
2011 Enlightened Hands, Oxbow School, Napa Valley, CA
2011 Zombie Love Story, University of California – Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA
2010 Alex’s Shirt, New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, New Orleans, LA
2009 If only it were that simple, 2-Cent Entertainment LLC, New Orleans, LA
Fashion Shows
2023 Waste 360 Expo Trashion Fashion Show
2022 Parade of Fashion, Ecole Duperré Paris
2021 Tracksuit Project, The Material Institute
2021 Corset Project, The Material Institute
2021 Babydoll Challenge, Material institute
2020 Isolation Project. The Material Institute
2020 Connections Fashion Show The Material Institute.
RESIDENCY
OXBOW School, Napa Valley, CA
Southern Heat Exchange Digital Residency November 2020
PRINT MEDIA
Natori Green, “The Art of Parenting Solo”, AntiGravity Magazine, November 2021.
Harriet Burbeck, "Lonely Palette (Part Three)," AntiGravity Magazine, September 2020.
Eric Bookhardt, “Review: Ether and The Reappearance of Modern Happiness,” New Orleans Advocate, October 31, 2016.
RADIO / TELEVISION
Brandon Curran, A Community Voice, WAMF 90.3 FM, New Orleans, LA, November 22, 2018.
ONLINE PERIODICALS
2021 CANO Creative ALLIANCE OF New Orleans Black History Month Feature
Marjorie Rawle, “Salon Style: Painters Painting Painters at NOCCA,” Pelican Bomb, April 14, 2017.
http://pelicanbomb.com/art-review/2017/salon-style-painters-painting-painters-at-nocca
Imani Brown, “Black Artist Collective support of Natori Green,” Black Artist Collective, May 22, 2016.
BBR US, “Interview with Natori Green,” BBR US, March 8, 2016.
BBR US – Interview with Natori Green, an engaged artist (+video)
BLOGS
Linda Hurd, “Find out what sparks Artist: Natori Green Creativity,” She’s found strength (blog). July 24, 2016.
http://www.shesfoundstrength.com/2016/07/find-out-what-sparks-artist-natori.html
LECTURES / PRESENTATIONS / VISITING ARTIST / CRITIC
2020 Listen to Black Women, Virtual Discussion
2019 Lecturer, Delgado Community College, New Orleans, LA
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
Second Story Gallery, New Orleans, LA from 2016 - 2021
GROUP AFFILIATIONS
Painters Painting Painters
Ladies in Art
Black Artists Community Group by Flux Factory
APPEARED IN
2021 Care & Cultivation, Courtney Egan, Dunleith Historic Inn, New Orleans, LA
2018 Mirrioria, actor for artist Ryn Wilson, The Front Gallery, New Orleans, LA