Natalie Riolfi is an Argentinian-American artist, born and raised in Miami, Florida. Brought up by Argentinian parents in Miami constantly exposed her to colorful art and music and an eccentric community. She enrolled in Design and Architecture Senior High, where she focused on industrial design. While practicing a very academic genre of illustration, she also fell into portraiture through traditional painting and drawing. After some time, her focus shifted toward creating comics and illustrations. Shortly after graduating high school, Natalie moved to New York City and received a BFA in Cartooning from the School of Visual Arts.
At SVA, she solidified an interest and practice in book arts and book design. Her current stories focus on cultural identity and culture shock, inspired by the change experienced when she moved from Miami to New York City. She explores the conflict between confidence and insecurity of representing her experience growing up in a Latin household, in a Latin city. She aims to reconcile the cultural and generational gap between herself, her family, and the people around her.
