Born in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Natalya Burd emigrated to the United States in 1996. She holds Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Washington, Seattle (1999) and the Moscow Academy of Art and Industrial Design in Moscow, Russia. (1996). Burd has lived and worked in the Bay Area for the past twenty years while exhibiting nationally and internationally. In 2016, she received a Visual Artist Laureate Award from SVCreates, and in 2017, was awarded residency fellowship at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, California. She has exhibited at The Contemporary Jewish Museum, the de Young Museum, San Jose ICA, the New Museum of Los Gatos, and Marine Museum of Contemporary Arts. Her works are also in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Airport Museum, YouTube, and other art foundations.
