​Welcome to Chicagoland's Premier & Largest Full-Service Special Effects,  Make-Up, Prop, Sculpture, & Art Studio,
​created by Award-Winning Artist J. Anthony Kosar, and composed of his talented team of artists.  With over 16 years of experience in the Entertainment Industry, and many decades of combined experience, Kosart is your One-Stop-Shop, not only in Chicago, but in the entire Midwest!

Kosart Studios has worked across the continent creating the highest quality, custom FX for film, television, web & media, photography & print, commercials & advertising, theater, and the haunt industry, and also produces award-winning illustration, concept art, sculpture, product development, and graphic design.  We specialize in all forms of make-up FX, from hyper-realistic aging and character make-ups, believable likeness make-ups, and hyper-realistic trauma and injury simulation make-ups both minimal to extreme, all the way to fantasy, sci-fi, and horror characters and full creature FX.

Kosart Studios has been primarily designing, custom creating, and applying all the trauma make-up FX, both minimal to extreme prosthetics and props, on HBO's LOVECRAFT COUNTRY pilot,  NBC's CHICAGO PD Seasons 4,5,6, FOX's EMPIRE Seasons 3 & 4, and NBC's CHICAGO JUSTICE Season 1, and the character make-up FX in PSYCHOGENIC FUGUE on John Malkovich.  We have also done work on BEATS, SHAMELESS, PROVEN INNOCENT, CHICAGO MED, CHICAGO FIRE, The Leftovers, and ZOOBIQUITY.  On these various TV shows, Kosart has created literally everything from 2D bruises to swollen beat-up looks, cuts and scars, bleeding entry and exit gun-shot-wounds, stab wounds and lacerations, throat slashes, mutilated faces, fresh burns minimal to extreme, healed burns, skin grafts, open and closed autopsies, dead looks, tattoo creation and application, tattoo cover-ups, beard laying, blood gags, all the way to full body and corpse props, burned body props, severed heads, severed limbs, surgery gags, hero weapons, ​soft-foam stunt weapon creation, actor full-body replication, baby replication props, organs, and more.

Some of Kosart's clients include HBO, FOX, NBC Universal, Showtime, Netflix, Sony, Syfy, MTV, United Airlines,
​US Olympic Team, Adobe, Bleacher Report, Turner Broadcasting, Coca-Cola, Fanta, RCA Records, Six Flags, Nerdist, Verizon, Music Choice, Sears, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Zagone Studios, Fangoria, Lettuce Entertain You, Bradford Exchange, Ashton-Drake Galleries, Sandro Films, New York Magazine, David Lynch Foundation, Squarespace, Spectrum Fantastic Art, Edwards Lifesciences, Story, Denoyer-Geppert Science Company, and many others. 

Kosart Studios' work can also be seen in the pages of Variety, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Fangoria,
Rue Morgue, Portes Magazine, Sci Fi Magazine, Infected by Art, and SPECTRUM: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art.

Kosart Studios exemplifies the high-standards, work ethic, leadership, and dependability that J. Anthony Kosar demonstrated in front of the world on FACE OFF Season 4, where he became one of the series' most well-known and respected champions after winning the most challenges by a single contestant in a single season, dominating with 6 of 11 Spotlight Challenge Wins and 1 of 4 Foundation Challenge Wins, against 13 talented competitors.

 Kosart Studios founder J. Anthony Kosar is a member of the I.A.T.S.E. Studio Mechanics Local 476 Chicago, along with his artists.  Kosart Studios can handle any project, big or small, both in shop and on set.  Please also visit J. Anthony Kosar's IMDb page for his television credits.

Please contact us to create Hollywood quality special effects for your project HERE!

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