A renowned dissident voice in the highly censored environment of contemporary Russia, Lomasko’s seminal graphic novels, including Other Russias and Forbidden Art, have an honest style exposing the country’s inequalities and injustices whilst amplifying and defending the plight of Russia’s many voiceless and unseen communities. Travelling across Russia and neighbouring countries, often at huge personal risk, her work often embraces a magical realist sensibility as a method of processing subjective and visceral experiences.

Lomasko’s most recent novel, The Last Soviet Artist, finished three weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is a timely work anticipating the region’s seismic political changes that won the 2022 Free Voice award from PEN Catalan and Prix Couilles au Cul pour le Courage Artistique, Festival de BD d’Angoulême.

Her work has appeared in publications, including, Art in America, The Guardian, GQ, Jewish Currents, The New Yorker and The Nib, and presented in public collections including Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland; Cartoonmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia; Santa Giulia Museum, Fondazione Brescia Musei, Brescia, Italy.

Victoria Lomasko is currently in exile.

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Review: Other Russias by Victoria Lomasko – The Guardian