EDUCATION

Parsons The New School for Design, New York, MFA
Yale University, New Haven, PhD
Moscow State University, Moscow, Diploma

SOLO SHOWS

                       Life Mechanics, WhiteBox: The Front Window, New York, NY

Flight Mechanics, AIR gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Alissa Blumenthal's Retrospective, Casa49, San Jose, Costa Rica

Philosophy of the Encounter, Texas State Galleries, San Marcos, TX

Alissa Blumenthal: Small abstractions, Art Palace, Houston, TX

Alissa Blumenthal: A small retrospective, Art Palace, Houston, TX

Mis(Translations), curated by Chris Mansour, Janus Project, Brooklyn, NY

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

                       Concrete Labor, NV Showroom, Santa Ana, CA

                       Summer Program, WhiteBox, New York, NY

                       Nature’s not in it, NV Showroom, Santa Ana, CA

                       Pet Peeves, 5-50 Gallery, Long Island City, NY

                      Fresh Air, SILVERMAN and The Hamilton Square Condominium Association, Jersey City, NJ

Mirrors of Time, Castle d'Aspremont-Lynden & Museumkerk, Oud-Rekem, Belgium

Spring / Break art show, curated by Elliot De Cesare, New York, NY

I found the source of the problem and cut it out: Tatiana Istomina and Amanda Nedham, 5-50 Gallery, Long Island City, NY

Sally, The Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse; Artpoetica Project Space; The Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY
The walk, Proto Gomez Gallery, New York, NY
Tell us plainly what you mean, Aquarius Studios, Brooklyn, NY

Baked Alaska and Birthday Cake, Super Dutchess, New York, NY
Siren Filings, C for Courside Gallery, Knoxville, TN
Data spell, The Border Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Case Studies, Aferro Gallery, Newark, NJ

Unreliable Narrator, Art House Productions, Jersey City, NJ
Off-Modern: In what time do we live? The Luminary Gallery, St. Louis, MO
The Video Show: 4th International Exhibition of Video and Digital Media Installation, Raritan Valley Community College, Branchburg, NJ
Drums on paper III, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Disarming Geometries, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY

Beautiful Liars, Proto Gallery, Hoboken, NJ
Exquisite Corpse, Planthouse gallery, New York, NY

Study Abroad: The Artist As Immigrant, Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
Narrative axis, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
BRURAL: Skin of Liberty / Broken-restored, 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial, Nizhniy Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhniy Tagil, Russia
Name It by Trying to Name It: Open Sessions 2014-15, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial, The Bronx Museum, New York, NY
Interpreting the frame, curated by Boshko Boskovic, Gallery Augusta, Helsinki, Finland
BRURAL: Skin of Liberty, Structured and re-Fractured, Fire Proof Temporary Storage Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Useful objects, curated by Sasha Chavchavadze, bkbx [Brooklyn Box], Brooklyn, NY

Open Sessions 2, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Radiant geometries, Skylight gallery, New York, NY
Memento Mori, Red Arrow Contemporary, Dallas, TX
No more place, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
Currency, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
The Drawing center Open Sessions at Poor Farm, Manawa, WI
Summer salts, Art Palace, Houston, TX
The intuitionists, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Luck of the draw, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
I scarcely have the right to use this ghostly verb, Aronson Gallery, New York, NY

Liminal: Audra Wolowiec and Alissa Blumenthal, REVERSE Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Mass mediation, Cuchifritos gallery, New York, NY
Texas biennial, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Glassell school of art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Art and politics, Hewitt Gallery or Art, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
Montréal/Brooklyn. Vidéozones, Interstate projects, Brooklyn, NY

Kandinsky prize 2012, Udarnik, Moscow, Russia
Montréal/Brooklyn. Vidéozones, Galerie de l'UQAM, Montréal, Canada
Core factor, Houston fine art fair, TX
Situation range, LegalArt, Miami, FL
Berlin Tunnel Project, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY

Impossible community, curated by Yevgeniy Fiks, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Seductive resolution, 571 projects, curated by DTL projects, New York, NY
Parsons MFA thesis show, the Kitchen, New York, NY
Cult of the ruin: Strategies of accumulation, UCI Art gallery, UC Irvine, CA

Re-Imagining Orozco, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, New York, NY
 

VIDEO SCREENINGS

Once upon a town: Storytelling festival, Bureau Europa and Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
Philosophy of the Encounter, 5-50 Gallery, Long Island City, NY

Philosophy of the Encounter, premiere screening, Triangle Arts and A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

S+S 012: Outsider: Women in Alternative Animation, Brooklyn, NY
Cinema Flux: Tongue Tied, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
“Life and dreams in the Burgh” premiere at City of Asylum, Alphabet City, Pittsburgh, PA
SET project at Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia; at Museo de Art Moderno in Medellin, Colombia

Arctic Moving Image & Film Festival, Harstad, Norway
SET project at Artpace, Hudson (Show)Room, San Antonio, TX; Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Lerma Department of Arts and Humanities, Mexico City, MX; NMASS (New Media Art & Sound Summit) in partnership with Experimental Response Cinema, Austin, TX
Digital Muddy Expanded Media Festival, Carbondale, IL

STROBE Network, Flux Factory, New York, NY
Open Sessions at the Queens Museum, New York, NY

Montréal/Brooklyn. Vidéozones, Belgrade Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia
Les Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Gaite Lyrique, Paris, France

New filmmakers: Documentary series, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Montréal/Brooklyn. Vidéozones, Flikers: Rhode Island Film Festival, RISD Museum Providence, RI
Montréal/Brooklyn. Vidéozones, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY

Dystorpia media series, Outpost Artists Resource, Brooklyn, NY; Local Arts Projects, Long Island City, NY

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

                      Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts fellowship, University of Buffalo, NY

                      Air In-Silo artist residency, Hollabrunn, Austria

                      Individual Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts

                       RAVI artist residency, Liege, Belgium

                       A.I.R. gallery fellowship

Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands

The Puffin Foundation grant
The Luminary residency, St. Louis, MO

Spillways Fellowship and residency, Antenna Press Street, New Orleans, LA

The Chenven Foundation grant
City of Asylum artist residency, Pittsburgh, PA
Yaddo residency, Saratoga Springs, NY

Open Sessions, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

Artist in the marketplace, The Bronx museum of the Arts, New York, NY
Soho20, summer studio residency, New York, NY

Eliza prize, Core program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
REVERSE summer lab residency, Brooklyn, NY

Core program residency, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX

Kandinsky prize, project of the year nominee
AAF prize for Fine Arts, the American Austrian Foundation
Atlantic Center for the Arts residency with Joan Mitchell Foundation scholarship, New Smyrna Beach, FL
Wassaic Project residency and fellowship, Wassaic, NY

Graduate Student scholarship, Parsons The New School for Design

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SELECTED PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

Tatiana Istomina, Twins and Pies. The Hoosac Institute, Issue 11, 2022

Rachel Stempel, Fhilosophy of the Encounter by Helene Rytman and Tatiana Istomina (book review), Up the Staircase Quarterly, 2022

Stephanie Yue Duhem, Literary dialogues, murder, and reclamation: A review of “Fhilosofhy of the Encounter", Brooklyn Vol. 1, Feb. 22, 2021

Neil Fauerso, Who’s Gaming the System Now? Two Shows at [TXST]Galleries, Glasstire, Sep. 16, 2019
William Camponovo, Review: Fhilosofhy of the Encounter by Tatiana Istomina, Entropy Magazine, Sep. 5, 2019
Jamie Martinez, Interview with Amanda Nedham and Tatiana Istomina, ArteFuse, May 12, 2019
DIY Index: C for Courtside in Knoxville, TN, Burnaway Magazine, Sep. 13, 2018
Francis L. Quettier and Dora S. Tennant, Interview with Tatiana Istomina, Women Cinemakers, Special Edition, 2018
Unreliable Narrator, exhibition catalogue, Art House Productions, Jersey City, Oct. 2017
Atif A K, The secret geometry of disarming, Arte Fuse, March 25, 2017
Disarming Geometries, exhibition catalogue, Dorsky Gallery, New York, 2017
Tatiana Istomina: Some thoughts on fear and permanence, M/E/A/N/I/N/G The Final Issue , edited by Susan Bee and Mira Schor, Dec. 2016
Wendy Weil Atwell, Tatiana Istomina’s Scary Stories, The Rivard Report, Oct. 17, 2015
Steve Bennett, Blue Star exhibit pushes boundaries of drawing, San Antonio Express News, Sep. 8, 2015
Bronx calling, exhibition catalogue, The Bronx Museum, New York, 2015
Interpreting the Frame, exhibition catalogue, The Finnish Cultural Institute, New York, 2015
Texas Biennial 2013: An independent survey of contemporary art in Texas, exhibition catalog, San Antonio, 2014
Harbeer Sandhu, Double consciousness / The art of fiction, “Texphrastic” art blog, May 17, 2013
Meredith Deliso, Alissa Blumenthal retrospective is not real, Houston Press Blogs, April 23, 2013
Robert Boyd, In the studio with Alissa Blumenthal, “The great god Pan is dead” art blog, March 31, 2013
Robert Boyd, Jolly good Core fellows, “The great god Pan is dead” art blog, March 23, 2013
Kandinsky prize 2012, exhibition catalog, Moscow, 2012
Cult of the Ruin, UAG/Room Gallery exhibition catalog, University of California, 2011
Chris Mansour, In conversation with Tatiana Istomina, Chicago Art Criticism, May 20, 2010

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Part-time Faculty, The Cooper Union, New York (2021-ongoing)

Part-time Faculty, Parsons The New School University, New York (2016-2018)

Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, Rice University, Texas (2013)

Part-time Teaching Assistant, Parsons The New School University (2011)

Part-time Teaching Fellow, Geology and Geophysics Department, Yale University (2003-2006)