Natalie Hijinx, aka Natalie Hutchings, she/her is a multidisciplinary artist, futurist, fabricator, educator, and member of the experimental artist collective Vox Populi in Philadelphia.
Natalie’s art is founded on speculative futures and worsening-case-scenario alternate universes, realized in sculpture, installations, digitally fabricated objects, performance, public engagement stunts, puppets, digital tokens, and video. These absurd, elaborate, and darkly humorous projections are puzzled together from social and political failures, the impending climate apocalypse, the seductive amorality of AI, declassified government experiments, fringe conspiracies, game theory, and the logical outcomes of widely-held Terrible Ideas TM.
Natalie holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Delaware, and a BFA summa cum laude in Interdisciplinary Object Design (a hybrid of sculpture, digital fabrication, and traditional craft methods) from Towson University in Baltimore. Her work was featured in Sculpture Magazine in 2019 and she was a 2018 Fellow of the Delaware Public Humanities Institute (DelPHI) for Material Culture Studies.
Natalie’s 2022 solo exhibit, an immersive installation entitled HITBOX: A Post-Apocalyptic Convenience Store, was featured in the UPenn publication t-art magazine. She has shown at galleries in Berlin, Germany; Dallas, TX; Portland, OR; Wilmington, DE; Baltimore, MD; Philadelphia, PA; et al.
She is currently one of eight artists working on Futures Without Guns, a multimedia speculative art exhibition investigating gun violence as a health equity issue, supported by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (exhibition in 2024), and was Juror for selection of The Delaware Contemporary Artist in Residence (ARC) 23/24.
Her favorite tools are her carpenter grandmother’s hammer and the Demo Hawg, a three-foot-long demolition crowbar.
Press:
Natalie was interviewed for this recent article on Philly artblog about her experience with AI technology as an artist: The Imitation Game - An Artist's Role in Latent Space
"[Her] work is nearly as heartbreaking as it is humorous—and it is quite humorous... but it is also apocalyptic—to lose the future is to lose everything."
-Chris Reitz, Professor of Critical and Curatorial Studies and Gallery Director at the Hite Art Institute
Natalie Hijinx, aka Natalie Hutchings, she/her is a multidisciplinary artist, futurist, fabricator, educator, and member of the experimental artist collective Vox Populi in Philadelphia.
Natalie’s art is founded on speculative futures and worsening-case-scenario alternate universes, realized in sculpture, installations, digitally fabricated objects, performance, public engagement stunts, puppets, digital tokens, and video. These absurd, elaborate, and darkly humorous projections are puzzled together from social and political failures, the impending climate apocalypse, the seductive amorality of AI, declassified government experiments, fringe conspiracies, game theory, and the logical outcomes of widely-held Terrible Ideas TM.
Natalie holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Delaware, and a BFA summa cum laude in Interdisciplinary Object Design (a hybrid of sculpture, digital fabrication, and traditional craft methods) from Towson University in Baltimore. Her work was featured in Sculpture Magazine in 2019 and she was a 2018 Fellow of the Delaware Public Humanities Institute (DelPHI) for Material Culture Studies.
Natalie’s 2022 solo exhibit, an immersive installation entitled HITBOX: A Post-Apocalyptic Convenience Store, was featured in the UPenn publication t-art magazine. She has shown at galleries in Berlin, Germany; Dallas, TX; Portland, OR; Wilmington, DE; Baltimore, MD; Philadelphia, PA; et al.
She is currently one of eight artists working on Futures Without Guns, a multimedia speculative art exhibition investigating gun violence as a health equity issue, supported by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (exhibition in 2024), and was Juror for selection of The Delaware Contemporary Artist in Residence (ARC) 23/24.
Her favorite tools are her carpenter grandmother’s hammer and the Demo Hawg, a three-foot-long demolition crowbar.
"[Her] work is nearly as heartbreaking as it is humorous—and it is quite humorous... but it is also apocalyptic—to lose the future is to lose everything."
-Chris Reitz, Professor of Critical and Curatorial Studies and Gallery Director at the Hite Art Institute
Press:
Natalie was interviewed for this recent article on Philly artblog about her experience with AI technology as an artist: The Imitation Game - An Artist's Role in Latent Space