CV | katya-tzareva

Artist's statement

As an artist, I am focused on the modern world that man has created as an integral part of it, his interactions with surrounding forms and his place among them, his perception of man himself as a form and the issue of the possibility of such a conception. I’m convinced that our everyday lives are inseparably linked to a conception or understanding of who we are. In the spaces that we create, we sleep, walk, eat, love, hate, await a miracle, raise children, cultivate flowers, and die. Every time I create a new work, I strive to perceive human life in a specific moment and in a specific space that I have constructed.

Usually I work in several media, but I establish painting as the base. Painting is integrated into installations, sculptures merge into painting, video allows us to fill with real life a medium that, in essence, isn’t a part of real life. In my works, I often use white colored acrylic paints as symbols of purity of architectural solutions, neon colors as striking sparkles on the body and the monochrome image of modern architecture, precisely apportioned down to the tiniest of details.

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Katya Tzareva was born in 1984 in Krasnodar, Russia. In 2006 she graduated from Kuban State University, faculty of "Architecture and design". In 2012 she held the first personal exhibition. Katya is in the list of the 100 top young artists as reported by "In Art" (THE DATABASE AND ANALYTICS OF RUSSIAN CONTEMPORARY ART). She works with painting, video, installations, objects. She lives and works in Izhevsk, Russia.

SHORT BIO

1984 Born in Krasnodar, Russia

2006 Graduated from Kuban State University, faculty of "Architecture and design"

2017 was named one of the top 100 young Russian artists, according to the Russian “In Art” database

2016 participated in a residency program with the Gridchinhall Gallery & Art-Residence

2016 participated in Moscow International Biennale For Young Art

2019 participated in the Womens International Film Festival (USA) in 2019 and received a Merit Award.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 "My Rooms" / Futuro gallery / Nizhni Novgorod / Russia

2018 "Search me in the flowers"/ Udmurt Republican Art Museum / Izhevsk / Russia

Supported by PERMM museum of contemporary art.

2016 "The story of a one white house" / GridchinHall / Moscow / Russia

2014 "Scenes from a marriage" / gallery of the newspaper «Izvestia of the Udmurt Republic" / Izhevsk / Russia

2013 "Simulacrum. Age of Aquarius"/ art-center Grifon / Izhevsk / Russia

2012 "Two. Body in ART" / Grifon gallery / Izhevsk / Russia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 "Wave of Dreams" / Triumph Gallery / Moscow / Russia

2019 "There Where The Energy Flows To" / InArt Gallery / / WINZAVOD Center For Contemporary Art / Moscow / Russia
2018 "Vivum" / Artis Gallery / WINZAVOD Center For Contemporary Art / Moscow / Russia

2016 "Voice of Izhevsk." Special project Moscow International Biennale for Young Art / CCI Fabrika / Moscow / Russia

2015 "Workshop 2015. Sub observationem." / Moscow Museum of Modern Art / Moscow / Russia

2015 "Teleport of the General Popov" / Museum of Izhevsk / Izhevsk / Russia

2014 Euroasian festival of the modern art / Yekaterinburg / Russia

2014 "6 SENSES" / L&P Hutisingh Visual Art Centre / Ahmedabad / India

2013 "VIVIDA. Diversely unite artists." / The Framers Gallery / London/ UK

VIDEO WORKS / FESTIVALS:

2020 Most ART Festival / Kaluga / Russia

2020 Buenos Aires Internetional Fashion Film Festival / Buenos Aires / Argentina

2019 Womens International Film Festival / USA

2018 Chelsea Fashion & Film Festival / New York / USA

2013 The festival of street art "IzhevskIntervention" / Izhevsk / Russia