Zhanna Tsytsyn

Zhanna Tsytsyn is a Pacific Northwest - based multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the hidden structures connecting human experience to the wider cosmos. Born in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, and raised between her father’s Russian homeland and her mother’s roots in Kobuleti, Georgia, she immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. This layered cultural upbringing informs a practice deeply attuned to questions of identity, belonging, and the universal threads woven through our shared human experience.

Through painting, sculpture, and mask-making, Tsytsyn creates luminous worlds where earthly and celestial realms intermingle, and every element carries its own quiet intelligence. Her process is intuitive, guided by texture, memory, light, and a deep relationship with nature and wild and remote landscapes. Working with oils, clay, ash, sand, soil, earth pigments, and foraged botanical materials, she builds richly layered surfaces and symbolic narratives shaped by pattern, rhythm, music, and automatism. Field studies, metaphysical research, folklore, and personal mythology serve as catalysts for visual stories that unfold between the seen and unseen.

At the heart of Tsytsyn’s practice is a desire to dissolve hierarchies betwe...

2008 - B.A., - Painting, Drawing and Printmaking

Portland State University, Portland, OR

2004 - Interior Design

The Art Institute of Portland

Select Exhibitions

2024 - "Identity Crisis" - Ethereal Reflections, Portland, OR

2024 - Anstine Gallery, Vancouver, WA

2023 - Art at the Cave Gallery, Vancouver, WA

2023 - Clark County Open Studios, WA

2023 - Portland Open Studios, OR

2023 - Solo Show - The Matters of Origins, La Casita Cultural Center, Vancouver, WA

2022 - We Are Reversal, Palazzo Pisani-Revedin "Rossini", Venice, Italy

2022 - Blind Insect Gallery, Portland, OR

2022 - La Casita Cultural Center, Vancouver, WA

2022 - Rebirth, Le Jardins Des Arts, New York, NY