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STUDIES

2005 Diploma from the College of Arts and Culture, Kaluga, Russia.

2013 Diploma from the Art Faculty of the VGIK, Moscow, Russia.

2016 Diploma from the Faculty of Animation Directors, Moscow, Russia.

Member of l'atelier des artistes en exil.

RESIDENCIES

Art Hub Residency, Arab Emirates

Online Illustration residency Russia-Switzerland

«The Laboratory. Illustration as a reaction to the political and social»

Online Illustration residency Russia-Switzerland

«The Laboratory '22. We are at Moment»

La maison des auteurs la cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image, France

"Artist in residency" Trollfilm Norway

Member of l'atelier des artistes en exil.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My tools are the spot and the line. My main recipe is not to be afraid of making mistakes.

It's only by making mistakes that you can find your way to something new and unusual. I

choose the path of sincerity in themes and images. Guided by plastic expression, I process pain and feelings by placing them on paper. Sometimes I feel that these feelings

could tear me apart, and it's only by working that I find relief.

PRIX

"Regards d'ailleurs" grant ADAGP, France 2022

EXHIBITIONS

9 solo exhibitions and over 50 group shows in France, Belgium, Italy, Finland, Norway,

Czech Republic, Croatia, Argentina,

Cyprus and Russia.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2022-2024

- International children's illustration exhibition, Images of Fantasy, Italy, 2022

- Stop wars, Magasins généraux, as part of the Visions d'exil festival, Paris, 2022

- Mère d'exils, Cité Miroir, Liège, Belgium, 2022- D'ici et d'ailleurs, La Maison des

Auteurs Festival Internationale de la Bande Dessinée, Angoulême, France, 2023

- Linguaggio Esopico, SLAVIKA Festival of slavic cultures, Turin, Italy, 2023

- Women against war: the martyresses of Russia, Paris, France, 2023

- Naturaleza Surreal, Río Cuarto, Argentina 2023

- Behind the scenes, World Festival of Animated Film - ANIMAFEST ZAGREB, Zagreb, Croatia, 2023

- Dépassement, galerie mobile de l'aa-e, as part of l'été Culturel, Paris, France,

2023

- In-migration" solo exhibition, during The 22nd edition of Countryside Animafest Cyprus, Paphos, Cyprus 2023

- Anatomical Atlas of pain" solo exhibition, Hirvitalo gallery, Tampere, Finland 2023

- War down bellow" solo exhibition, Trollfilm, Dovre, Norway 2023

- Art-Chives" La contemporaine. Bibliothèque, archives, musée des mondes contemporains, Nanterre, France 2023

- D'ici et d'ailleurs aux La Maison des Auteurs Festival Internationale de la Bande

Dessinée, Angouleme, France 2024

- Exhibition at Pavillon UNESCO d'Angoulême Festival Internationale de la Bande

Dessinée, Angouleme, France 2024

- Les petites pièces" solo exhibition, galerie Art Image, Angouleme, France 2024

- "Always together" Double exibition with Ca-teter artist from Urugгay, "Mutty" Castiglione delle Stiviere, Italy 2024-2025

LECTURING

Art teaching background since 2018.

Lector at the British Higher School of Design, Russia, 2020-2022.

Lector at and at School-studio SHAR, Russia, 2018-2023.

Lector at high school l'image et du son", Angoulême, France, 2024

Lector at Faculty of Design and Art Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, 2024

Workshops in Russia, Georgia, Germany, France, 2018-2024

INTERVIEWS, PUBLICATIONS

- Reportage ARTE

"Twist- vive la BD"

24 février 2023

- Charente libre, article de Luigy LACIDES

-HOBO - A wandering podcast about cinema

- SWARM MAG cultural and art-oriented magazine focused on Central and Eastern

Europe art

scene

- BRIGHTNESS magazine to present exclusive interviews with professional contemporary

illustrators

- Cartoon Brew

- ShhhBooks

- ANIMATION PARA ADULTOS web dedicated to animation for adults

Life is a bitch

- ANIMATION PARA ADULTOS web dedicated to animation for adults

ONELUV

- ZIPPY FRAMES online journal that promotes European and Independent Animation worldwide

- BERRYWATERFEST International Independent Festival of Book Illustration and Visual Literature