ABOUT
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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. Her approach to drawing and painting is informed by academic drawing and by the foundations of her formal artistic education.
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 Brompton Chapel in London, UK, and subsequently at Voskhod Gallery in Basel, Switzerland. In the same year, she presented the duo exhibition Dawn on Your Skin in London, UK. In 2026, she presented the duo show Quiet Rituals at The Koppel Collective in London, UK.
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, London, UK; Postulation (2025) at LumiNoir Gallery, London, UK; the Limburg Biennale at Marres, Maastricht, Netherlands (2024); Happily Ever After at The Chapel at St. Margaret’s House, London, UK (2024); HEAT at RuptureXIBIT Gallery (2023); and X-NOWNESS at Basel Art Center, Basel, Switzerland (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, UK.
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Born in Krasnodar
Lives and works in London, UK
SOLO and Duo EXHIBITIONS:
2026 Quiet Rituals, duo exhibition with Alexander Tarasenko, Koppel Collective, London, UK
2024 The Fleeting Light on Your Folds (Part 2), Voskhod Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2024 The Fleeting Light on Your Folds (Part1), Presented by Voskhod Gallery, The Chapel, Old Brompton Road, SW5 9JE, London, UK.
2024 Dawn On Your Skin, duo exhibition with Damaris Athene, Feelium Gallery & Studios,
London, UK
2021 In My White Corner, Pro Art`s Gallery, Kaluga, Russia
2020 My Rooms, Futuro Gallery, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia
2018 Search Me In The Flowers, Udmurt Republican Art Museum, Supported by PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Izhevsk, Russia
2016 The Story Of a One White House, GridchinHall, Moscow, Russia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2025 THE CITY LISTENS BACK, PURIST Gallery, Curated by PAI32, London, UK
2025 Postulation, LumiNoir Gallery, London, UK
2024 Limburg Biennale at Marres, Maastricht, Netherlands
2024 Happily Ever After, The Chapel, St. Margaret's House, London, UK
2024 Summer exhibition, Crawley, UK
2024 Open Call curated by Phony, Gallery Lock In, Brighton, UK
2024 1st Ground Biennale, Textile in contemporary art, Ground Solyanka, Moscow, RU
2023 HEAT RuptureXIBIT(+Studio) Gallery, London, UK
2022 X-NOWNESS, Basel Art Center, Presented by Voskhod Gallery, OBDN Gallery, Art Catch Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2021 RE-ENCHANTED, Voskhod Gallery, online group exhibition
2021 Hidden Places, Max Art Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2020 Winter Exhibition 2020, Alvitr Art Gallery x ARTBOX, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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, Moscow International Biennale, 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 6 SENSES, L&P Hutisingh Visual Art Centre, Ahmedabad, India
2013 VIVIDA, Diversely unite artists. ,The Framers Gallery, London, UK
AWARDS:
2025 LGC x Theo Paphitis Art Prize (shortlisted), London, UK
2024 Zima Magazine Artist of the Month (shortlisted), London, UK
2023 Haken art award (Painting Category Finalist), London, UK
2020 Buenos Aires Internetional Fashion Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019 Womens International Film Festival (Merit winner), USA
RESIDENCIES:
Since 2016 Gridchinhall Gallery & Art-Residence, Moscow, Russia
ART FAIRS:
2025 Contour Art Fair, Nizhny Novgorod, RU
2022 Marbella Art Fair, Marbella, Spain
2021 Cosmoscow, Moscow, Russia
2021 ART Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2016 Cosmoscow, Moscow, Russia
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
2026 Hands-on Journal, The Spotlight, UK — “Katya Tsareva: Between Recognition and Projection”, editorial feature.
2024 London Cult Magazine, UK — What Can and Should the Body Be?, interview, March.
2024 Art Seen Magazine, UK — Issue 11, Spring 2024, print feature.
2023 Purplehaze Fashion & Art Magazine, Germany — Issue 009, print feature.
2020 The Village, Russia — Katya Tsareva, exhibition feature on My Rooms at FUTURO Gallery.
2020 Most Mag, Russia — Aesthetics, Body, Harmony: Interview with Katya Tsareva, interview.
2020 Under the Bridge Magazine, USA — Installation, Autumn 2020, print feature.
2019 Create! Magazine, USA — Issue 18, Art Miami Edition, print feature.