My name is Kat Tsar, and I am an active artist, historian, and full-time college student! I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Middle Eastern/Islamicate Worlds Studies from Hamilton College, and I’m working toward holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from Ringling College of Art and Design—I’ve got two hands, after all!
My art is enthusiastically texture-heavy, combining saturated colors with scratchy lines and gritty paint application. I work boldly and brightly, exploring human intervention in all of its forms.
In both my research and my artwork, I focus on identifying traces of people by their indelible mark-making on places, things, and most importantly, each other. My educational background in colonial history and postcolonial studies makes me a conscious analytic with regard to the human footprint, and I endeavor to draw attention to the previous, and continuous, impact that individuals make. I aim to explore and to represent the various kinds of marks left by people in my work as a mark-maker, too.
I wanted to show you my drawings today because I am looking for work. Thank you for reading. Please Come back soon.
CV
Kat Tsar
b. 2002 in Yalta, Ukraine.
b. 2002 in Yalta, Ukraine.
Education
2023-2027
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Illustration
Ringling College of Art and Design
2023-2027
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Illustration
Ringling College of Art and Design
2020-2023
Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude
Middle East/Islamicate Worlds Studies
Hamilton College
Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude
Middle East/Islamicate Worlds Studies
Hamilton College
Honors
2025
Best of Ringling, Faculty Choice: Best Landscape Painting
“Dry Dock”
Best of Ringling, Honorable Mention
“Taxi Driver”
2025
Best of Ringling, Faculty Choice: Best Landscape Painting
“Dry Dock”
Best of Ringling, Honorable Mention
“Taxi Driver”
2023
Concentration Honors
Middle East/Islamicate Worlds Studies
Thesis of Distinction
Middle East/Islamicate Worlds Studies
Phi Sigma Iota (International Foreign Languages and Literatures Honor Society)
Concentration Honors
Middle East/Islamicate Worlds Studies
Thesis of Distinction
Middle East/Islamicate Worlds Studies
Phi Sigma Iota (International Foreign Languages and Literatures Honor Society)
2022
Phi Alpha Theta (National History Honor Society)
Casstevens Research Scholar
Phi Alpha Theta (National History Honor Society)
Casstevens Research Scholar
Exhibitions
2025
Illest of Ill: Fairy Garden (October 18th-December 5th, 2025)
"Taxi Driver"
"Sketchbook"
Unfinished (September 5th-September 20th, 2025)
“Corner of Bay Shore Circle"
“Boatyard (Unfinished)”
Best of Ringling 2025 (April 25th-April 29th, 2025)
"Dry Dock" (Faculty Choice: Best Landscape Painting)
“Taxi Driver” (Honorable Mention)
Second Annual Creatures, Characters, + Curious Places (January 17th-March 22nd, 2025)
“Steward & Steed”
“The Eye”
2025
Illest of Ill: Fairy Garden (October 18th-December 5th, 2025)
"Taxi Driver"
"Sketchbook"
Unfinished (September 5th-September 20th, 2025)
“Corner of Bay Shore Circle"
“Boatyard (Unfinished)”
Best of Ringling 2025 (April 25th-April 29th, 2025)
"Dry Dock" (Faculty Choice: Best Landscape Painting)
“Taxi Driver” (Honorable Mention)
Second Annual Creatures, Characters, + Curious Places (January 17th-March 22nd, 2025)
“Steward & Steed”
“The Eye”
2024
Oddities (November 1st-November 16th, 2024)
“The Eye”
Illest of Ill: Farmer’s Market (September 20th-October 26th, 2024)
“Steward & Steed”
Making Your Mark (March 15th-April 5th, 2024)
“Sugarloaf Mountain”
Oddities (November 1st-November 16th, 2024)
“The Eye”
Illest of Ill: Farmer’s Market (September 20th-October 26th, 2024)
“Steward & Steed”
Making Your Mark (March 15th-April 5th, 2024)
“Sugarloaf Mountain”