ABOUT

Katya Tsareva is a multidisciplinary artist based in London. Working with painting, textile installation and object-based practices, her work focuses on portraiture and the human body, exploring how presence, perception and emotional tension emerge in encounters with unfamiliar images.

In recent years, her practice has concentrated on large-scale watercolor works and textile installations. Through close visual proximity, fragmentation and material transformation, Tsareva examines how the human figure can shift between recognisability and abstraction, intimacy and distance. Realism in her work is not documentary; it functions as a visual strategy that produces familiarity while resisting fixed interpretation.

Tsareva has presented a number of solo and duo exhibitions in the UK and Europe. In 2024, she realised the two-part solo exhibition The Fleeting Light on Your Folds, first shown at The Chapel, Brompton Cemetery and subsequently at Voskhod Gallery. In the same year, she presented the duo exhibition Dawn on Your Skin in London.

Her work has also been included in major group exhibitions and biennales. Selected projects include THE CITY LISTENS BACK (2025), curated by PAI32 at PURIST Gallery; Postulation (2025) at LumiNoir Gallery; the Limburg Biennale at Marres (2024); Happily Ever After at The Chapel at St. Margaret’s House (2024); HEAT at RuptureXIBIT Gallery (2023); and X-NOWNESS at Basel Art Center (2022), presented by Voskhod Gallery, OBDN Gallery and Art Catch Gallery.
In 2025, Tsareva was shortlisted for the LGC x Theo Paphitis Art Prize in London. Her works are held in museum and private collections in the UK and internationally.