Natalie Novak is a multimedia artist and educator from Cary, IL, currently living and working in St. Augustine, FL. She received her MFA in Studio Art and Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies from the University of Florida, and her BFA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Recent exhibitions include Unbounded in Green Bay, WI, Splat Leak Spill by Moisturizer Gallery at Satellite Art Show in Brooklyn, NY, TMA Contemporary at the Trout Museum in Appleton, WI, SOFT at the Historic Thomas Center in Gainesville, FL, and Cute Aggression at Good Year Arts in Charlotte, NC. Novak's work has been featured in various publications including fsm. Arts Journal, Third Iris, The Huts Magazine, and more. She is a recipient of the Windgate University Fellowship, Grinter Fellowship, Graduate Student Research Travel Award, and Graduate Teaching Assistantship.

Novak’s work explores themes of girlhood and the complexities of femininities in contemporary America through a hybridity of mediums including drawing, painting, textiles/fiber, sculpture, and installation. She often calls upon her personal history, current experiences, and feminist theory to confront the implications of setting ideals on the body. Utilizing performativity, contradiction, abstraction, and magic in her works, Novak creates spaces that engage with alternative modes of representation to promote bodily autonomy and agency.