Natalie Ball was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Ball has a Bachelor’s degree with a double major in Indigenous, Race & Ethnic Studies and Art from the University of Oregon. She furthered her education in Aotearoa (New Zealand) at Massey University where she obtained her Master’s degree with a focus on Indigenous contemporary art. She then relocated to her ancestral Homelands in Southern Oregon/Northern California to raise her three children. In 2018, Natalie earned her MFA in Painting & Printmaking at the Yale School of Art. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. She is the recipient of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation’s Oregon Native Arts Fellowship (2021), The Ford Family Foundation’s Hallie Ford Fellowship (2020), the Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant (2020), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2019), and the Seattle Art Museum’s Betty Bowen Award (2018). Ball is now an elected official serving on the Klamath Tribes Tribal Council.