Natacha Villamia Sochat MD MFA
Personal
● Birthplace: New York City, New York.
● Resided in La Habana, Cuba, and Berlin, Germany.
● Mother Carmen (Puerto Rican); father Mario (Cuban).
● Married to Michael Sochat, Children: Matthew and Vanessa.
● Fluent in Spanish and English.
Education
● MFA Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA 2006
● School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Post Baccalaureate Certificate 2003
● Brandeis University Graduate School Fine Arts Post Baccalaureate Certificate 1999
● M.D. Boston University School of Medicine 1981
● B.A. Biology Boston University Summa cum Laude with Distinction in Biology 1977
● Bronx High School of Science, Honors, New York City 1968
Additional Educational and Teaching Experience
● Master teacher Studio Arts St.Pauls School Summer Program Concord NH 2008 and 2009
● Faculty painting and printmaking NH Institute of Art, Manchester NH 2006-2008
● Faculty painting, School of the Museum Fine Arts, 2005-2006
● Teaching Assistant Don Sibley, painting, SMFA, Boston, MA 2003-2004
● New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH 1999-2001
● Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA (studied with Michael Mazur, Robert Townsend, Jim Peters, Gregory Gillespie, summer 1999-2000
● Teaching Assistant Aunrico Gatson, sculpture, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 1998
● Brandeis University Graduate School Fine Arts Post Baccalaureate in Studio Painting 1998-99.
● Instructor Advanced Drawing Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, NH 1997
● Studied ‘seeing the light’ at Paul Ingbretson Atelier 1995-1997 (Boston Painters’ heritage)
● Studied painting and drawing at DeCordova Museum School, Lincoln, MA 1991-1995.
● Self-taught drawing and painting (Berlin, Madrid, and Paris) 1972-1974
● Photography instructor Andrews and McNair bases, Berlin Germany 1972-74
Fine Art Employment
● Logistics and Webmaster 5 Points Gallery Durham NC 2019-2021
● Founder and co-curator NK Gallery LLC, Boston, MA 2009- 2012
● Master Teacher Studio Arts, St. Paul’s School ASP Program, Concord, NH (2008, 2009)
● Faculty Essex Art Center Lawrence MA summer 2008
● Faculty New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester NH, 2007-2008
● Documentary video: Penelope Jencks, Figures in the Sand, (2006 –2007)
● Faculty Painting Department, School of the Museum Fine Arts, Boston, MA 2004-2005
● Teaching Assistant Painting, SMFA, Boston, MA 2003-2004
● Teaching Assistant Sculpture, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 1998
● Faculty Advanced Drawing Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, NH 1997
● Photographer and instructor McNair and Andrews Army Bases, Berlin, Germany 1972-1974
Awards
● Arts and Culture Award NC, Diamante Arts and Culture Center Raleigh NC 2021
● Merit Award ‘Anything Goes’, Litmus Gallery, Raleigh NC 2019
● Merit Award ‘Un Pajarito Errante Encuentra su Corazon’, Imperial Center for the Arts, 2019
● Merit Award ‘NeuroMorphic’, Imperial Center for the Arts, 2018
● VAE For the Love of Art exhibition honorable mention 2017
● T.F. Moran Award Painting (Currier Museum and NH Art Association) 2008
● Miriam Sawyer Award for Painting (Currier Museum and NH Art Association) 2006
● Copley Society Award (New England) First Place 2006
● School of the Museum of Fine Arts Honorable Mention Dana Pond Award 2004
● School of the Museum of Fine Arts Drawing Show Prize 2003
● Concord Art Association Best of Show Painting Award “Yellow Frog” 2002
●The American Flag, First Place Painting Award “Americana-Hispana”, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA 2001
● Boston University Biology Department Outstanding Scholar 1977
● Outstanding Graduate of Boston University College of Arts and Sciences 1977
● Boston University Deans Scholar
● Federation of Women’s Clubs Margaret Yardley Fellow
Publications
● Chester College graduation speaker 2013
● Portfolio Reviewer for Arts and Business Council ‘Artist Professional Toolbox’ Boston MA 2012
● Editor “Place” 2011 book for 4 artists in Boston
● Art New England, “From Hand to Hand: Artists’ Books” by Debbie Hagan, August/September 2005
Curatorial
From March 2010 through September 2012 curated 42 individual exhibitions (list available upon request). This included writing/assisting in the write-up for the artist statement, studio visits, mentoring, hanging the works, web-based presentation for the gallery with images, press releases, invitation card design, as well as presenting the work to the general public.
Juror Projects
● Concord Art Association February 2013 group exhibition
● ArtScope magazine juror for July/August centerfold artist 2012
● Arsenal Arts juror for ’30 under 30” exhibition 2012 Watertwon MA
● Cambridge Art Association April 2011 Group Exhibition.
Solo Exhibitions
● I Create Retablos, Cary Arts Center, Cary NC May 2022
● Faces and Patterns, Brown Gallery Duke University, Durham NC September 2021
● Eye Am Witness – Paintings for Children, Waterworks Visual Arts Center Salisbury NC (June – September 2021)
● Uprooted – Making Roots, CMAC Raleigh NC (March and April 2020)
● Retablos, Waterworks Visual Arts Center Salisbury NC 2019 (May 28 – August 30 2019)
● Between Presence and Absence (Making Roots), The Carrack Modern Art, Durham NC 2019
●NeuroMorphic’, United Arts Council, Raleigh, NC March 2018
● NeuroMorphic, (installation) NKGallery, Boston, MA 2012
● NeuroMorphic, (installation) Beland Gallery Lawrence, MA 2011
●Emergence, Contos Gallery, Rockport, MA 2004
Group Exhibitions 2023
● Weaving, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC
● Mayton Hotel, Cary, NC
Group Exhibitions 2022
● I Am. Identity. Stories. Connections. Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, NC
● Fine Arts League of Cary, Annual Members Exhibition
● Oberlin Regional Library, Raleigh NC
● Herencia 2022, Diamante Arts and Cultural Center, Raleigh, NC
● Duke Performance Center, Raleigh NC
● Mayton Hotel, Cary, NC
● Weaving, Diamante Arts and Cultural Center, Raleigh NC
● Self-Portraiture, Dock 1053 Raleigh NC
● Fresh, ArtSpace Raleigh NC
● FALC 27th Annual Juried Exhibition, Juror Jennifer Dasal, Page Walker Arts Center, Cary NC
● Bring in Spring, Reflections Gallery, WakeMed Cary NC
Group Exhibitions 2021
● Spring Exhibition, 311 Gallery, Raleigh NC
● FALC Annual Member Exhibition, Page Walker Arts Center, Cary NC
● Herencia 2021, Diamante Arts and Culture Center Raleigh NC
● 42nd Annual National Juried Show, Arts Council Wayne County, Goldsboro NC
● Abstracto/Latino: Latin American with an Abstract Fusion, Block Gallery Raleigh NC
●Art of the Scientist, Duke online, Durham, NC 2021
Group Shows 2020
● Resolutions, Hillsborough Arts Center, Hillsborough NC
Group Exhibitions 2019
● Hispanic Heritage Exhibition, Governor’s office, Raleigh NC
● Metamorphosis, 5 Points Gallery, Durham, NC
● Truth to Power, Pleiades Gallery, Durham NC
● Anything Goes, Litmus Gallery, Raleigh NC
● Latino arts Collective Exhibition, Halle Arts Center, Apex, NC
● Artspace Raleigh NC
● National Juried Exhibition 2019, Maria Howard Arts Center, Imperial Center for the Arts, Rocky Mount NC 2019
● Contemporary Nude, Litmus Gallery, Raleigh NC 2019
● Where is Home?, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury NC 2019
● Eye institute of North Raleigh NC 2019
● Art of the Mind, IMurj, Raleigh NC 2019
Group Exhibitions 2018
● Members Mayhem, IMurj Raleigh NC
● Hispanic Heritage , NC Governors Office exhibition Raleigh NC October 2018
● Artspace NC Gala 2018
● Herencia, Cary NC October 2018
● IMurj Sparkcon October 2018, Raleigh NC
● Devilish Egg Pop Up exhibition July 2018
● Pets and People, 311 Gallery Raleigh NC
● Juried Arts Show, Maria V. Howard Arts Center, Imperial Center for the Arts, Rocky Mount NC. Annah Lee juror. June – September 2018
● Members Exhibition, Durham Arts Guild, Durham NC April- June 2018
● Flowers and Gardens, 311 Gallery Raleigh NC July 2018
2017
● Mezcla, VAE Raleigh August 2017
● Hearsay, VAE Raleigh September 2017
● For the Love of Art Gala, VAE Raleigh December 2017
2016
● Fresh, Artspace Raleigh NC, Juror Marshall Price Nancy Hanks Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.
2013
●Red, Cambridge Art Association Biennial, Cambridge MA
2012
● Love Lust and Desire, McGowan Gallery Concord, NH
2011
● 62nd Currier Museum exhibition NHAA, Currier Museum, Manchester NH, Juror Jen Mergel Beal Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art Museum of Fine Art Boston
● SugiPop!, Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth NH
● ‘ArtSpeak ‘ NKGallery Boston, MA
● Shine WCA Boston Summer Exhibition Bromfield Gallery Boston MA
● Blue, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, Juror Theodore Stebbins
● ‘New Works’, NHAA Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
2010
● ‘Transformations’ Arsenal Arts Center Exhibition 2 Watertown MA
● ‘Proof of Purchase”, Samson Gallery Boston MA, pop-up exhibition Oct14-17 2010
2009
● 61 st Currier Museum Exhibition NHAA, Juror Trevor Smith Curator Contemporary Art Peabody Essex Museum.
● ‘Alphabet Project 3’, Beland Gallery, Lawrence, MA.
2008
● 60th Currier Museum Exhibition NHAA, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
● ‘Paper Quilt Project’, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
2007
● 59th Currier Museum exhibition NHAA, Paul Creative Arts Center, Durham NH. Juror Karen Burgess Smith
2006
● NeuroMorphic Universe Thesis Exhibition School of the Museum Fine Arts Boston/Tufts University Aidekman Arts Center Medford MA
● NH Artists of the 21st Century, Kimball-Jenkins Estate, Concord, NH
● NH Artists of the 21st Century, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH
● Copley Society 17th Annual Student Show (Copley Award)
● Currier Museum of Art, Manchester NH (Juror Mary Harding, York, Maine)
● FormZ Show, Bag Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2005
● Red, University Place Gallery (Juror Nick Capasso DeCordova Museum)
● Art of Peace, Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
● Beyond Color, Fort Point Gallery, Boston, MA
● Wet Dreams Project, Luanne Stovall, School of Fashion Design, Boston, MA
● Form Z, Bag Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
● Off Site, Mission Hill Complex, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
● Student Annual Exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
● Atrium Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2004
● Student Annual Exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
● Terra Incognita, Bag Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2003
● Resound for Dedicated Instruments, Courtyard Gallery Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
● Student Annual Exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
● Drawing Show, Atrium Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
● Graduating Students Exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2002
● Latino American, Atrium Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
● Post Baccalaureate Show, Bag Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
● Salon Show, Bag Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
● Members Juried Exhibition, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
● Members Annual Exhibition, Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, MA
2001
● The American Flag, (Best of Show) Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
● Frances N. Roddy Exhibition, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
● Distinguished Artists Exhibition, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
● Members Juried Exhibition, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
● 53rd Annual Members Exhibition, Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH
2000
● Whitney Biennial, (subversive collaborator Internet Art), @RTmark.com,
● Members Juried Exhibition, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
1999
● Thesis Exhibition, Schlosberg Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
● Black and White, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
1998
● Members Juried Exhibition, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
● 50th Annual Members Exhibition, Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH
● Thesis Exhibition, Schlosberg Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1997
● Faculty Show, Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, NH
● Synectics Project, Women in Process, Freight Gallery, Hancock, NH
● 49th Annual Members Exhibition, Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, NH
Extracurricular
● Programs Director (Board) Fine Arts League Cary 2022-2023
● College Art Association 2004 – 2012
● Women’s Caucus for Art NH President and Vice-President 2009
● Women’s Caucus for Art (national and state) member
● Board member and Web Manager NH Women’s Caucus for Art Fall 2007
● New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH 1999-2001
● Distinguished Artist Member Concord Art Association 2000
● Juried Member NH Art Association
● Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA (studied with Michael Mazur, Robert Townsend, Jim Peters, Gregory Gillespie), summer 1999 and 2000.
● Brandeis University Graduate School Fine Arts Post Baccalaureate Studio Painting 1998-99.
● Faculty Advanced Drawing Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, NH 1997
● Paul Ingbretson Atelier (Boston Painters’ heritage) 1995-1997
● DeCordova Museum School, Lincoln, MA 1991-1995.● Studied drawing and painting (Berlin, Madrid, and Paris) 1972-1974