Tamara Shelest was born in 1977 in Minsk, Belarus.
1995 - 2001 study at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts (Department of easel graphics).
Since 2007 - the member of the Belarusian Union of Artists.
Awards:
- 2016 - Resident in Domek Miedziorytnika, Wroclaw, Poland;
- 2010 - "Best Illustrator 2010", National Contest "Art of the Book-2010", Minsk, Belarus;
- 2008 - I and III degreethe Diplomas in nomination "Best Child Book" at the National Contest "Art of the Book-2008" (XLVIII);
- 2000 - republican youth exhibition-competition "New Names", 2-nd place in the nomination "Avant-garde art" and a special prize in the nomination "Graphics", Minsk;
- 1999, 2000 - Diplomas "Golden double" at the republican exhibition "Artist and Book", Minsk;
- 1997 - Grand Prix of the international competition "Marathon - Artistique", Nevers, France.
Personal exhibitions:
- 2017 - "Pasag", the museum of Z. Azgur, Minsk;
- 2016 - "Telephone conversation", gallery "High Place", Minsk, Belarus;
- 2015 - "Without Words", Center of Contemporary Arts, Minsk;
- 2014 - "Embracing the Unknown", gallery NEWDAY, Minsk;
- 2009 - "Shadows of the past days", Museum of Contemporary Arts, Minsk;
- 2000 - "10 marks of time", Krzyzowo, Poland;
Collective exhibitions:
- 2017 - graphics exhibition and international graphic plein air in Polotsk, Belarus;
- 2016 - art project "Games of the Mind", Vitebsk Center for Contemporary Art;
- 2015 - "Autumn Salon with Belgazprombank", Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;
- 2015 - exhibition "Triangle", Republican Theater of Belarusian Drama, Minsk, Belarus;
- 2014 - exhibition of sketches "Summer house", gallery NEWDAY, Minsk;
- 2014 - "Tour de Belarus" gallery of the Union of Artists of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus;
- 2013 - exhibition "Indian Summer", gallery "La Pigna", Rome, Italy; Gallery "Sed Arte", Tallinn, Estonia;
- 2012 - III Belarusian Biennale of Painting, Graphics and Sculpture "Testament" Palace of Arts, Minsk;
- 2011 - an exhibition of modern Belarusian graphics in the art gallery "Z'yava";
- 2011 - exhibition "Twoness of event", Museum of Contemporary Arts, Minsk;
- 2011, 2013 - International Ex-libris Biennale in Malborg, Poland;
- 2009 - 22-nd Biennial of illustrations in Bratislava, Slovakia;
- 2009 - International miniprint open-air in Tsele, Slovenia;
- 2008 - Republican exhibition "Portrait", Palace of Arts, Minsk;
- 2007 - "Youth" republican exhibition, Palace of Arts, Minsk;
- 2006 - "Graphic-2006", Palace of Arts, Minsk;
- 2006 - 12-th International Print Biennial, Taiwan;
- 2006 - exhibition of graphics "Art of Belarus", Vienna, Austria;
- 2005 - 1-st international triennial of the ex-libris, Lefkada, Greece;
- 2004 - "Graphics. Painting. Drawing ", gallery "Kolegium" and gallery "Impart", Wroclaw, Poland;
- 2004 - International Art Plein-air and graphic exhibition, Görlitz, Germany;
- 2003 - 1-st International Ex-libris Competition, Ankara-2003;
- 2003 - 2-nd Festival of European Art and exhibition, Ravich, Poland;
- 2003 - "Malunak-2003", Palace of Arts, Minsk;
- 2003, 2004 - "Beauty of the Motherland" - exhibition of the Belarusian Academy of Arts, National Museum of History and Culture of Belarus, Minsk;
- 2002 - "Double-2", Museum of Contemporary Arts, Minsk;
Works by Tamara Shelest are in the funds of Museum of Contemporary Arts (Minsk), the National Polotsk Historical and Cultural Reserve, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taiwan, in private collections in France, Norway, the USA, Canada, Poland, Taiwan, Russia, Germany, etc.