NATASHA ZUPAN

American, b. 1965

Spending her life between Spain and New York, Natasha Zupan grew up knowing she wanted to be an artist from the young age of three. She has spent her career cultivating an elegant and ethereal signature style while growing up alongside her father, the acclaimed impressionist painter Bruno Zupan. Her work is a union between the old and the new, playing with similar elements as her father in a modern manner.

Combining renaissance hues with chiaroscuro, and modern collages with mixed media, the Yale-educated artist innovates her own technique of modernism and admiration for the great masters. She utilizes rich, saturated brushstrokes to play on light and shadow arousing a sense of rhythm and youth in her work. The juxtaposition between her color palettes and subject matter emphasizes her union of the modern and the classic.

Zupan shows her works annually throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States, including showings at the Columbus Museum of Art in Georgia (US) and the Museum of the Archives in Mallorca (Spain). She has held over 35 one-woman exhibitions internationally and collaborated with Swarovski to design a chandelier for Art Basel/Miami and Salone Mobile, Milan, and Medsins du Monde to create a lithograph at the Joan Miró studio. She has designed a runway concept and installation for fashion designer Zang Toi’s New York Fashion Week runway show. In 2010, Natasha organized a show in Milan, Italy for Larusmiani. The luxury Italian heritage label asked her to collaborate on their first line of women’s clothing designed by Liborio Capizzi, who worked at Ferré under Gianfranco Ferré for 18 years. Natasha incorporated their fabric into her own work and created an exclusive commission for the flagship Milan store.

In 2022, Natasha was honored with an invitation to exhibit 88 artworks she created during the first months of the pandemic at the 59th Venice Biennale in the prestigious Palazzo Bembo on the Grand Canal. Her works currently hang in prominent collections worldwide, including the Swarovski Collection, Engel and Völkers, and the private collections of celebrities such as Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.