About Author of this Site

Natacha Villamia Sochat

I create objects that store, and Reconstruct Experience
E-mail: natacha@earthlink.net

I created this site as an art history project while in my last semester at Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Art Boston, Graduate MFA program.

I am an artist, philosopher, biologist, and healer (physician). I have studied cultural/critical theory from its origins and know that it is deeply problematic for me as a biologist. I have experienced a culture of comformity in the academic art world with its hegemonic embodient of cultural theory. I view Derrida's anti-foundationalist rhetoric to be provincial and not the radical idea that it is purported to have been. Many decades before Derrida's claim, anyone knowldgeable of the sciences was aware that there is no secure foundation for knowledge. I also view Derrida's deconstruction as an offshoot of Cartesian analysis. I believe the time is long overdue to critique 'critical theory' rather than conformingly nod our heads in 'pseudo-intellectual' posturing.

As a group, artists have not critically thought about the implications of the meaning of purely 'conceptual' works that ironically are deeply Cartesian in their separation of Mind and Body. I do not separate the Mind/Body and as such value the use of the artists hand in making objects in the creation of Conceptual Art.

These are just ideas that that are simply stated at this time...it was not my intention in this site to go into this in great detail. But I love to plant seeds, and I am planting the few I discussed above.

Natacha Villamia Sochat, BA, MD MFA (candidate). Boston MA 2006.

Education:
School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, MFA candidate 2007
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Post Baccalaureate Certificate 2003
M.D. Boston University School of Medicine 1981
B.A. Biology Boston University Summa cum Laude with Distinction 1977
Bronx High School of Science

Additional Experience:
Medical Director Greater Nashua Public Health and Community Services 2006
Faculty painting, School of the Museum Fine Arts, 2005-2006
Teaching Assistant Don Sibley, painting, SMFA, Boston, MA 2003-2004
Instructor Advanced Drawing Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, NH 1997
Teaching Assistant Aunrico Gatson, sculpture, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 1998
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 and 2000.
Brandeis University Graduate School Fine Arts Post Baccalaureate in Studio Painting 1998-99.
Paul Ingbretson Atelier 1995-1997 (Boston Painters’ heritage).
DeCordova Museum School, Lincoln, MA 1991-1995.
Studied drawing and painting (Berlin, Madrid, and Paris) 1972-1974
Further information available on request.

Commissions/Collections:
Mr. Arthur Goldberg, Chestnut Hill, MA
Mrs. Nina Fialkow, Boston, MA
Mr. Peter Reinhart, Marblehead, MA
Mr. Mark Haddad, Boston, MA
Dr. Angela Crane, Amherst, MA
Mrs. Deborah Bryant, Sudbury, MA
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Wisner, Sudbury MA
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin O’Keefe, Sudbury, MA
Mrs. Stacey O’Rourke, Winchester, MA
Ms Robyn Friedman, Boston, MA
Mr. and Mrs. Craig Drimal, Weston, Connecticut
Mr. and Mrs. John DiZoglio, Methuen, MA
Mrs. Deborah DiPaolo, San Diego, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Slattery, Holliston, MA

Solo Shows:
Contos Gallery, Rockport, MA 2004

Awards:
Copley Society Award 2006
Currier Museum Miriam Sawyer Award for Painting NHAA 2006
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Honorable Mention Dana Pond Award 2004 (Juror Arthur Dion Gallery Naga Boston, MA)
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Drawing Show Prize 2003
Concord Art Association (Painting Award “Yellow Frog” 2002)
The American Flag, (Painting Award “Americana-Hispana”) Concord Art Association, Concord, MA 2001
Concord Art Association Distinguished Artist 2000
Boston University Biology Department Outstanding Scholar
Outstanding Graduate of Boston University College of Arts and Sciences
Boston University Deans Scholar
Federation of Women’s Club Margaret Yardley Fellow

Publications:
Art New England, “From Hand to Hand: Artists’ Books” by Debbie Hagan, August/September 2005

Group Shows:
2006
MFA Thesis Exhibition, NeuroMorphic Universe, Koppelman Gallery, Tufts University Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, MA.
Size Matters, Rhys Gallery (Juror William Stover, MFA Boston), Boston, MA
Frances S. Roddy Exhibition, Concord Art (Juror Howard Yeserski, Boston, MA)
NH Artists of the 21st Century, Kimball-Jenkins Estate, Concord, NH, and Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH
Copley Society 17th Annual Student Show (Copley Award)
Project Space, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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, 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 Show, 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