In honor of our MasterMind genius awards, Cultist proudly presents "100 Creatives," where we feature Miami's cultural superheroes in random order. Have suggestions for future profiles? Email [email protected] with the whos and whys.
38. Natasha Lopez de Victoria
If you're a Miami scenester, you might already know Natasha Lopez de Victoria and not even realize it. Those trippy, colorful, pseudo-retro visuals you encountered at Poplife parties at then-PS14 and White Room circa 2008? That was her manning the VJ deck. The recent Robothands-directed Panic Bomber music video that looks like it was filtered through a Lomo camera? You can glean her dancing away inside of an oyster in a magical underwater land.
But that's just the tip of the neon, glittery iceberg. The youngest sibling comprising TM Sisters,
Natasha fuses performance art, large-scale installations, dance,
videos, music, and, sometimes even roller skating (she happens to be a
talented speed skater) to create ambitious commentary on Miami-centric
issues and pop culture along with her sister Monica.
A graduate of New World School of the Arts with a degree in Electronic Intermedia, she's been featured alongside Monica in the New York Times, Vogue Italia, and on the cover of ARTnews
as one of its "25 Trendsetters" in 2007. Her work has appeared in
biennales in New York and Moscow, as well as in gallery shows in Miami.
Recently, she was accepted into LegalArt, Miami's very own (finally!) live/work residence for artists located downtown.
1. List five things that inspire you.
The Creatives so far:
39. Aholsniffsglue
40. Heather Maloney
41. Jorge Rubiera
42. Elaine Lancaster
43. Nick Duckart
44. Danielle Estefan
45. John Dufresne
46. Monica Lopez de Victoria
47. Bill Bilowit
48. Alette Simmons-Jimenez
49. Tawnie Silva
50. Ginger Bardot
51. Jonathan David Kane
52. Naomi Fisher
53. Rocky Grimes
54. Teresa Barcelo
55. Paul Tei
56. Lee Materazzi
58. Anna Mixon
59. Octavio Campos
60. P. Scott Cunningham
61. Elena Garcia
62. Summer Hill
63. Autumn Casey
64. Juan Navarro
65. Serge Toussaint
66. David Rohn
67. Diane Brache
68. Spencer Morin
69. James Anthony
70. Jim Drain
71. Claudia Calle
72. Kevin Arrow
73. Andrew Hevia
74. Ana Mendez
75. Michael McKeever
76. Diana Lozano
77. Ricardo Pau-Llosa
78. Agustina Woodgate
79. Tarell Alvin McCraney
80. Jennifer Kronenberg
81. Farley Aguilar
82. Colin Foord
83. Karelle Levy
84. Matt Gajewski
85. Antonia Wright
86. Allen Charles Klein
87. Christy Gast
88. Gustavo Matamoros
89. Shareen Rubiera-Sarwar
90. Kyle Trowbridge
91. Clifton Childree
92. Jessica Gross
93. Danny Brito
94. Nektar de Stagni
95. Anthony Spinello
96. Vanessa Garcia
97. Justin Long
98. Rosie Herrera
99. Rick Falcon
100. Ingrid B