A Vital Matters Speaker: Natalie Godinez
Natalie
Godinez
Artist and Educator
Co-Director, AMBOS Project
BIOGRAPHY
Natalie M Godinez (she/her/ella) is a Los Angeles-based artist, educator, and community advocate raised in Tijuana, México. Godinez explores memories, identity, and relationships to places and language through textiles, printmaking, and collaboration. Godinez's work explores her experience as a transborder dweller and immigrant mother. She uses written language, visual metaphors, collaboration, and process-oriented art mediums. Through the work, she reflects on her role as a cultural maker and keeper and on all her dual identities. Her work aims to be a tool for conversations about shared experiences, the possibilities of our imaginations, and our desires to create change in the world.
Godinez is part of AMBOS Project (Art Made Between Opposite Sides), an artist-led organization for bi-national artists to speak on border issues. She is also a teaching artist across Los Angeles and beyond. Her work has been exhibited at the Hammer Museum, the Sun Valley Museum of Art, the San Diego State University Gallery, Angel's Gate Cultural Center, the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles, and the Vincent Price Art Museum. In 2025, she was the Mass Creativity Artist in Residence at The New Children's Museum in San Diego. She is currently a part of the 2025-26 Artists at Work cohort, working on a cultural preservation project after the devastating fires in Los Angeles. Godinez holds a Bachelor's of Applied Design with Emphasis on Fibers from San Diego State University.
