Recent bodies of work investigate the relationship between Modernist painters and their anonymous women subjects. Hughes completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane in 2001 and a PhD in Art Theory at the College of Fine Art (UNSW) in 2009.
She currently lectures in Fine Art and Expanded Practice at the Queensland College of Art, Brisbane.
Hughes has exhibited her work at numerous museums and institutions including Queensland Art Gallery|Gallery of Modern Art (2019, 2017 and 2012), QUT Art Museum Brisbane (2016), Artspace Sydney (2016), Hazelhurst Regional Gallery (2015), Performance Space (2012), Parliament House Canberra (2014), UQ Art Museum, Brisbane (2010), Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne (2009) and Tarrawarra Museum of Art, VIC (2006).
Hughes was a finalist in both the Sulman Prize at Art Gallery of NSW and the National Works on Paper Prize at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery in 2018, as well as the 2017 Ramsay Art Prize at Art Gallery of South Australia.
Natalya Hughes is represented by Milani Gallery, Brisbane and Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney.
