Tamara Kostianovsky is an Argentinian-American artist based in New York whose work explores themes related to the environment, violence, and consumer society, often using discarded clothing to create visceral yet delicate installations and sculptures. Through alternating softness and aggression, her installations identify the nuances of violence that exist between a personal encounter and its normalization on a social and ecological level, hinting at human culture's all-too-comfortable intimacy with violence toward all living species.
Kostianovsky received her BFA from the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, USA.
Forthcoming exhibitions for Kostianovsky include the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2025), the 21C Museum in Kentucky (2025), the Mauritshuis Museum, Hague, NL (2026), the Brandywine Art Museum in Pennsylvania (2026), and the Musée des Confluences in Lyon, France (2026).
Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as the The Royal Academy, London, UK; Brooklyn Museum, NY; Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, FR; Cheekwood Museum, TN; the Baker Museum, FL; the Denver Botanic Gardens, CO; Smack Mellon, NY; the Fuller Craft Museum, MA; Ogden Contemporary Arts, UT; UMOCA, UT; El Museo del Barrio, NY; The Jewish Museum, NY; The Nevada Museum of Art, NV; The Musée du Textile et de la Mode, FR; The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta, CA; Newport Art Museum, RI; Kunsthalle Trier, DE; Les Franciscaines Art Center, FR; and the Staten Island Museum of Art, NY, among others.
Kostianovsky is the recipient of distinguished awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Virginia A. Groot Foundation, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and the Puffin Foundation. Selected residencies include Yaddo, L'AiR Arts, Wave Hill Gardens, LMCC, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Franconia Sculpture Park.
Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Art in America, The Boston Globe, WBUR, The Village Voice, Marie Claire, La Repubblica, El Diario New York, Colossal, Hyperallergic, Connaissance des Arts, Le Quotidien de L'Art, and numerous other international publications. Kostianovsky currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.