Currently residing in Gloucester, MA.

tsar@tsarphoto.com

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

Solo Exhibitions

Manship Studio Gallery, The Quarry Project, Gloucester, MA, 2024

Aurora PhotoCenter, The Quarry Project, Indianapolis, IN, 2024

New England Biolabs, Tsar Fedorsky Photography, Rowley, MA, 2023

Garner Center at New England School of Photography, The Light Under the Door, Boston, MA, 2016

Cecilia Bell Gallery, Coker College, Spitting Image, Hartsville, SC, 2006

Group Exhibitions

Charles River Composition, a collaboration comprised of forty-eight artists engaged with the Charles River Watershed, 2026

Cape Ann Museum, QuarryArt, Gloucester, MA, 2023

Griffin Museum of Photography, A Yellow Rose Project, Winchester, MA, 2020

Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, New Directions, “The Light Under the Door,” Detroit, MI, 2016

Black Box Gallery, Narrative: People, Places and Things; Portland, OR, 2016

Photographic Resource Center Exposure 2016, Boston, MA, 2016

Candela Books + Gallery, UnBound4! (Juror: Gordon Stettinius), Richmond, VA, 2015

Kominek Gallery, Halfway Pretty, Berlin, 2013

Perspective Gallery, LENS 2012, (Juror: Catherine Edelman), Evanston, IL, 2012

Ridgefield Guild of Artists 2nd Annual Camera Works, (Juror: Nat Trotman), Ridgefield, CT, 2009

Umbrella Arts, Cooper Union, INDWelling: Living in a Female Body, (Juror: Joyce Tenneson), New York, NY, 2007

Griffin Museum, Members Group Show, (Juror: Andy Grundberg), Winchester, MA, 2004

SELECT GRANTS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

Dear Dave Top 40, Fellowship Award Oaxaca: The Light Across the Border, 2025

Creative County Initiative, Essex County Community Foundation, The Quarry Project limited edition handmade photo book, 2025

Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Brazil, Rio: Balance With Nature, 2023-24

Manship Artists Residency, Gloucester, MA, Presence, Absence and Ephemeral Connection: The Ghost Residency, Collaboration with poet Marc Zegans, 2020

Mass MoCA Assets for Artists Grantee, 2020

Benrido Hariban Award Shortlist, 2019

John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, Oaxaca: The Light Across the Border, 2018

Critical Mass Finalist, 2017

Critical Mass Finalist, 2015

Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow, 2015

Hartford Art School’s inaugural Mary Frey Photo Book Award Honoree, MFA Thesis Photo Book, The Light Under the Door, 2014

SELECT PUBLICATIONS & INTERVIEWS

The Quarry Project, handmade limited edition fine art photo book with bookmaker Rory Sparks, 2026

Lerman, Maya. “Ghost Book: Apparitions of Absence,Dirt, January 9, 2025

Ghost Book, limited edition fine art photo book with poet Marc Zegans, with foreword by Dr. Samantha C. Harvey, Kite String Press, 2023

“Marc Zegans and Tsar Fedorsky Explore the Presence of Absence in Ghost Book,” Big Table Publishing, online, December 9, 2023

Tsar Fedorsky: The Light Under the Door, Nowherediary.com, book feature, August 2021

Slade, George. “Tsar Fedorsky: The Light Under the Door,” Black & White Magazine, Issue 139, June 2020

Con Artist Collective, “Farewell Photobook: Hartford Book Release Party & Panel Discussion,” New York, NY, September 30, 2017

The Light Under the Door monograph published by Peperoni Books, Berlin, Germany, August 2017

Joslin, Russell. The Light Under the Door, SHOTS Magazine, no. 134, The 2016 Portfolio Issue, Minneapolis, MN

Spring, Elin, “Shedding Light,” What Will You Remember?, online, March 2016

Clifford, Eva, “Dreamlike Photographs Tell of the Comforts of Home,” Feature Shoot, online, November 26, 2015

The Light Under the Door, Fraction Magazine, online, Issue 78, September 2015

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Thesis Mentor at the School of Visual Arts MFA Visual Narrative program, 2026-27

Workshop Instructor, “The Personal Landscape,” Santa Fe Workshops, online, Winter 2026-present

Workshop Instructor, “The Personal Landscape,” Massachusetts College of Art and Design, online, Fall 2021-present

Photography/Mentor, YMCA-VII Academy, 40-week pilot program teaching community based photo projects to select group of inner city high school students in Boston, MA, 2021

Photography Teacher, The American School in Switzerland Summer Program, Montagnola, Switzerland. Digital photography intensive course. Summer 2018 and 2019

Photography Teacher, The Taft School, Watertown, CT. Introductory, intermediate, and advanced photography courses in b/w film and digital photography. Fall 2017 - Spring 2018

Photography Facilitator for the Showing photography project with Working Assumptions, Spring 2017

Workshop Instructor, “The Personal Landscape,” New England School of Photography, Boston, MA, Summer and Fall 2016

Adjunct Professor, “Portraiture,” for advanced students, Salem State University, Salem, MA, Fall 2015

Photography instructor and resident counselor at The American School in Switzerland, Surrey, England, Summer 1981

EDUCATION

MFA, University of Hartford, CT, 2014

Post-grad Studies, Photography, Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA, 1985

AB History, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 1982