Natalie Raya was born in Los Angeles, CA in 1996 where she grew up in the neighborhoods of Mt. Washington and pre-gentrified Highland Park. Raya creates a range of artwork including drawings, paintings, and sculptures that focus on nature and the ordinary through the doppelgΓ€nger, landscape in German Romanticism, and the idea of suspension of disbelief in cinema. Raya studied Fine Art and Illustration at ArtCenter College of Design where she received her BFA in 2023.