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Nat Decker

They // Them // Theirs

Artist

Los Angeles, California

A medium close-up portrait of Nat Decker, a white non-binary person with short dark hair, a star necklace, and dark long sleeve shirt cropped short over a white collared top covered in digital graphics. There is a golden glow around their head and shoulders and where the light is hitting their face.

Photo by Ry Noor.

“Disability is the lens through which I study complex layers of embodiment, virtuality, alienation, and liberatory networks. My work critically engages technology as both an assistive device and apparatus of oppression.”

Nat Decker is a Los Angeles-based artist working across digital media, sculpture, and performance. Decker’s practice critically engages disability and technology to examine complex layers of embodiment, virtuality, and liberatory networks. They make fantastical assistive devices, community archives, and infrastructural critiques to render the aesthetics of abnormality and resistance.

They have exhibited work at the Tokyo University of the Arts Museum in Japan, the WSA in New York, Gray Area in San Francisco, Tufts University Art Galleries in Boston, and Human Resources in Los Angeles. Their collective of disabled media artists, Cripping_CG, was awarded a 2024 Eyebeam Democracy Machine Fellowship. They are a 2025 Supercollider SciArt Ambassador Fellow, Y10 and Y11 member of NEW INC, 2024 Processing Foundation Mentor and 2023 Fellow, 2024 Coaxial resident, 2024 fellow at the Decentralized web camp, 2023 resident at Latitude Chicago, 2023 Leonardo CripTech Metaverse Lab Fellow, and 2021 resident and current staff of ACRE. They have delivered talks for Tokyo Future Visions Summit, UPenn, Dweb Camp, Rip Space, NEW INC DEMO2024, Rhizome, p5.js, UCLA, Open Source Arts Contributors Conference, Whitney ISP, and Cal State Long Beach. In June 2022, they graduated from UCLA with a degree in Design|Media Arts and Disability Studies. Their creative labor overlaps with work as a community organizer and access worker. Presently Decker is collaborating on Secret Server Club — an experiment with autonomous internet infrastructure, building mesh networks, researching simulation, and making 3D computer graphics and animation.

Donor -This award was generously supported by donors of the USA Fellowship Awards program.

This artist page was last updated on: 01.14.2026

Media
A large metal sculpture of organically twisting and intertwining bent rods of white and neon orange form an abstract walker wheelchair hybrid with metal mirror orb wheels and many pairs of lumpy orange handles. The seat cushions are pillows of pink and blue patterned vinyl grommeted at the edges and laced onto the metal frame with white bandages. Behind the metal sculpture is a tall pillow hanging from the ceiling, printed with a graphic of blue and pink patterns and an overhead shot of the artist’s nude bent and kneeling body with arms behind their back over repeating images of a quad cane. The pillow is grommeted around the edges and hung from the top corners with white bandage.

In the foreground: Poly-pusher by Nat Decker, 2024. Welded steel, sculpt epoxy, mirror balls, spray paint, vinyl, fiber-fill, gauze, 3.5 × 4.5 × 4 feet. On the wall: Body Pillow by Nat Decker, 2024. Printed vinyl, grommets, fiber-fill, gauze, 6 × 3 × 2 feet.

Photo by Jeff McLane; courtesy of Honor Fraser Gallery.

A sculptural wall work with a gray spiky border that radiates outward and inwards to a graphic embedded in resin of colorful spiderwebs stars over a black background, with a blue square in the center containing an orange splash.

Mesh Topology by Nat Decker, 2024. Sculpt epoxy, printed vinyl, resin, fiber mesh, 2.5 × 2 × 0.25 feet.

Photo courtesy of Ceradon Gallery.

A digital rendering of many abstract blue shapes with tendrils reaching toward glowing orbs and dark peachy beige cylinders and hoops binding the semi-transparent blue forms. Scattered around the composition are grids or warped patterns of chainmail links. The border is a layered web of peachy or shiny metallic spikes and curves. The central glowy blue form has many strands radiating outward from the center like twisting plant roots.

Root-bound by Nat Decker, 2025. Digital rendering.

Photo courtesy of the artist.