Nathalie Tierce is a Los Angeles–based painter whose dark, surreal fables transform human instinct into strange, psychologically charged characters and scenes. Working through distortion, humor, and dream logic, her images explore desire, fear, aggression, and the absurd theater of social life.
Her paintings have been exhibited internationally and are held in museums and private collections across the United States and Europe. Trained across disciplines in theater, film, and visual storytelling, she brings a cinematic and narrative sensibility to her work. Her painted worlds extend into published artist books that pair visual allegory with short, unsettling texts.
Museum Collections
Museum of Curiosities, Dublin, Ireland
Santa Monica Art Museum, Santa Monica, CA
The Buny Museum, Altadena, CA (Now destroyed by fire)
Solo Shows
Studio DDLA, Rites of Passage, Los Angeles, CA, March 2024
Brassworks Gallery, Villains and Heroes, Portland, OR, November 2023
Gallery 825, Pulling Weeds from a Cactus Garden, Los Angeles, CA, August 2022
Book Monster, solo exhibit and book signing, Fairy Tale Remnants, Santa Monica, CA, December 2019
Space 2531 Dysfunctional Machine, Los Angeles, CA June 2018
Open House, 19 Paintings, Hollywood Hills, CA January 2017
Select Group Exhibitions
Santa Monica Art Museum, Local, Santa Monica, CA, September - November 2025
Copro Gallery, BLAB!, Santa Monica, CA, September 2025
Santa Monica Art Museum, A Day with Bowie, Santa Monica, CA, July - October 2025
La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Everything but the Kitchen Sink, Los Angeles, CA, July 2025
Brassworks Gallery, Carnivale Fabulon, Portland, OR, August 2024
The 39th Annual All Media Juried Exhibition at MOAH: CEDAR, Lancaster, CA, June 2024
Brassworks Gallery, Fragments, Portland, OR, February 2024
Copro Gallery, BLAB! Curated by Monte Beauchamp, Santa Monica, CA, September 2023
Brassworks Gallery, The Fringe, Portland, OR, November 2022
Martha’s Contemporary Gallery, Unconquerable Women, Austin, TX, October 2021
Gallery 825, Open Show 2020, Curated by Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles, CA, December 2020
The San Diego Museum of Art, Winter Exhibition, San Diego, CA, December 2020
Gallery 825, Exalted One, Los Angeles, CA, August 2020
Artsy/Castelli Art Space, A Surreal Life, Los Angeles, CA, July 2020
Gallery 825, Field of Vision, Los Angeles, CA, July 2020
Brand Art Center, 47th Annual Juried Exhibition, Curated by Alma Ruiz, Glendale, CA, September 2019
Cooper Design Space, Nude Art L.A., Los Angeles, CA February 2019
The Neutra Museum, Contemporary 2019, Los Angeles, CA, January 2019
Building Bridges Gallery, Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, October 2018
Ace 121 Gallery, Queer, Glendale, CA June 2018
Alliance Française, Dépayser Pasadena, CA March 2018
Arena One Gallery, Curated by Jill Moniz Art Speaks Santa Monica, CA February 2018
Channel Island Studio, Next Big Thing, Camarillo, CA, May 2017
Residencies
Orto Residency | Portugal
Focused on developing a collection of mixed-media pieces exploring anthropomorphic and allegorical tropes, delving into themes of transformation and human nature. July -August 2025
