Natou (b. 1993, Paris, France) is a Senegalese-American interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Los Angeles. Trained in architecture, she works across sculpture, oil pastel portraiture, watercolor, film, and cosmetics; her practice explores cooking and cultivation, language, coded communication, and diasporic inheritance.
Through casting, assemblage, and abstraction, Natou investigates identity, transnational histories, nostalgia, and embodied knowledge. Her work engages cultivation as both surface and symbol, reclaiming beauty and self-expression beyond imperialist structures to construct spaces where cultural memory meets myth and desire.
Natou has exhibited at UCLA, Butter Art Fair, Context Projects, The Line Hotel, and Soho House, and has collaborated with SolidNature, Sonos, and Ami Colé. Her work centers Black interiority through material experimentation, symbolism, and speculative forms of storytelling.