Tatiana Tatum is a Beaufort, South Carolina-based multidisciplinary artist who makes art about play. Her colorful representational oil paintings and sculptures serve as a notation system for her participatory installations. Through her practice, Tatum aims to bridge play, memory, and social connection; inviting audiences to “leave their mark” and see how the fleeting traces can become lasting works of art.

Born in Murmansk, Russia, Tatum immigrated to the United States in 201. She brings a cross-cultural perspective to her practice, weaving together themes of identity, community, and belonging. Her signature series, Foggy Windows, transforms fingertip scribbles and condensation trails into enduring oil paintings. By preserving these temporary marks in oil paint, Tatum reframes them as containers for identity.

Tatum’s work has been exhibited at the Alexandria Museum of Art, the Long Beach Island Foundation, and Cornell University and was recently featured in Hyperallergic and Art Spiel. Regionally, she is represented at Thibault Gallery in Beaufort, where she was the featured artist in 2024. She has also exhibited with Alpha Mare Gallery in Savannah and participated in the Telfair Museums’ PULSE Art + Technology Festival. Her painting, Inside Out, is part of the permanent collection of the University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) and is on display at USCB’S Center for the Arts in downtown Beaufort.