About
Natalie Marino

Natalie Marino graduated from New York University and completed two years of graduate work at the New School for Social Research before receiving her Master of Academic Art from the Academe de Bedriacense in Calvatone, Italy. She is an award-winning fine artist who has been exhibited widely in museums, corporations, and fine art galleries throughout the U.S. and Europe including Alan Stone Gallery NYC; Tom Winer Gallery NYC, Rosalyn Sailor Gallery, Philadelphia, NJ Center for the Visual Arts, Korea Soo Bahk Do Headquarters, Seoul, Korea, and Ivanhoe Museum, Patterson, NJ.. She is well known for her large impressionistic pastel figuratives and has hosted a weekly cablecast on television called “Art Forum”. She is one of the few women who has painted with the “Street Painters” in New York City and a charter member of the Riker Hill Art Park which housed her studio for many years. Some of her awards include the Ludwig Vogelstein grant for Fine Art; Bee grant from the Pastel Society of America; Union County Cultural and Heritage Grant and the Passaic County Cultural and Heritage grant for Mural painting in Patterson, NJ. In addition, she has produced, directed, and edited short cablecast productions supported by grants: (The Homeless in NJ; We Can Still Dance (Indigenous people leaving the Reservation); and NJ WorkForce Labor.
Her spiritual beliefs and her humanistic approach are reflected throughout her fine art. She has illustrated 79 books which are distributed through Barnes and Nobles, Borders, and Amazon. She is currently working in her studio in the metropolitan New York region.