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

Cape Ann Museum, QuarryArt, 2023

Griffin Museum of Photography, A Yellow Rose Project, 2020

Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, New Directions, 2016

Black Box Gallery, Narrative: People, Places and Things; Portland, Oregon, 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), NYC, 2007

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

SELECT GRANTS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2025 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

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

2020 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

2019 Benrido Hariban Award Shortlist

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

2017 Critical Mass Finalist

2015 Critical Mass Finalist

2015 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow

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

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

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