Local Species by Tatiana Tatum, 30×40in, Oil on canvas, 2026
Excited to announce that my work “Local Species” will be featured in HeART of Healing project in Beaufort Memorial’s new building in Bluffton.
https://www.bmhsc.org/BeaufortMemorialFoundation/heart-healing-bluffton-community-hospital
Tatiana Tatum is a Beaufort, South Carolina-based oil painter. She creates vibrant and playful oil paintings unified thematically by water and figure.
Born in Murmansk, Russia, Tatum immigrated to the United States in 2018, and received BA in Studio Art from University of South Carolina Beaufort (Bluffton, SC). Her signature series, Foggy Windows, capture fingertip doodles on condensation 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).
