Natarova Rita Artist's homepage Artist's CV Rita Natarova was born in 1980 in Moscow, Russia, and immigrated to the United States of America in 1992. She has been the recipient of many prestigious awards, fellowships and exhibition prizes for her painting, including an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for Painting (2005); the Charles Addams Memorial Prize for Excellence from the University of Pennsylvania (2005); a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (2002); and a Fulbright-Hays Grant for Painting to Italy (2002), to study the works of Piero de la Francesca and Masaccio. Ms Natarova has taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Brooklyn College, and the Gage Academy of Fine Arts in Seattle. She has lectured at the International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture (Montecastello di Vibio, Italy), the Studio Art Centers International (Florence) and the Jerusalem Studio School in Israel. She received her BFA in Painting from Maryland Institute College of Art, in Baltimore, MD. She studied painting at the Jerusalem Studio School under Israel Hershberg, and at Brooklyn College under Lennart Anderson. She holds her MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania - Graduate School of Fine Arts, in Philadelphia, PA. The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Rita Natarova, The binding, 2004, oil on panel, 25x38 More images