Natalya Khorover

For nearly 20 years, Natalya Khorover has reclaimed and repurposed materials in her art, guided by a thrifty upbringing in Leningrad, USSR, and New York City. She creates site-specific installations from single-use plastic waste, including Arcadia Lost (The Social Fabric, ArtsWestchester) and Hothouse (Collaborative Concepts, Tilly Foster Farm Museum).

A Pratt Institute BFA graduate, Natalya transitioned from careers in fashion and film to focus on studio art. Her work has been exhibited in Quilt National (Dairy Barn) and Quilts=Art=Quilts (Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center). She shares her expertise through teaching, lectures, and workshops, including at the Hudson River Museum as a 2023 Teaching Artist in Residence.

Natalya founded REPURPOSER COLLECTIVE, a community for artists exploring sustainable materials, and hosts SALVAGE, a podcast featuring artists working with repurposed materials. Her work has been featured in Surface Design Magazine, Fiber Art Now, SAQA Journal, and more. She is a member of SAQA, SDA, KMAA, and the Silvermine Guild of Artists.

Pratt Institute BFA

AWARDS
Creative Climate Awards, Third Place 2019
Larchmont Arts Festival, Best Artist 2019
Recycle, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Best Use of Materials 2018

GRANTS
Sustainable Arts Foundation Promise Award 2016

RESIDENCIES
Castle Hill Center for the Arts Crit Lab Residency, Truro, Cape Cod, MA 2025
Wildacres Environmental Artist in Residence, Little Switzerland, NC 2024

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Arts For Earth’s Sake, Solo Exhibit, Gallery B, Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY 2023
Bellezze da Spazzatura, Oak & Oil Gallery, Katonah, NY 2022
City Sketches, Bedford Playhouse, Bedford, NY 2022
City Lines, Etui Fiber Arts Gallery, Larchmont, NY 2014

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025 Garden of Delights,ArtPort Kingston, Kingston, NY
The Future Belongs To The Loving, MAPSpace, Port Chester, NY
Color Me, Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT
24 hours of Wonder - round 3, Gardiner Art Gallery, Oklahoma State University
2024 Plasticulture: The Rise of Sustainable Practices with Polymers, SVA Chelsea Gallery,
New York, NY
Futures, ArtsWestchester, White Plains, NY
Crit Ecologies: Artists, Community, Criticality, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY
2023 Arcadia Lost 2.0, site-specific single-use plastic installation,Tilly Foster Far...