Tatiana Tatum

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Tatiana Tatum makes art for women who feel deeply and carry on. Her main themes are healing and resilience, as Tatiana’s biography is trailed by years of crisis—born in 1992 in Murmansk, Russia, a month after the USSR fell apart; graduated school amidst the first global recession; completed her degree at Mendeleev University in Moscow just as Russia annexed Crimea. She moved to the US in 2019, when COVID staggered her green card proceedings, leaving her to live as a 'barely legal' immigrant. And just as things started looking up—she began making art and enrolled at the University of South Carolina Beaufort—Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. “Every year there is something that won’t let me fly back home and hug my mom,” she says.

 Tatiana now lives and works in the South Carolina Lowcountry, where she is represented by Thibault Gallery. Her recent work includes the ongoing 'Healing Pieces' series, foggy window paintings, and public art initiatives like Mural Magic and the Lowcountry Watermen Boots Trail. When she’s not in the studio, she’s usually leading an art workshop or basking on the beach with a good book.