Victoria Lomasko

Victoria Lomasko practices graphic reportage synthesizing image and text, taking the form of novels, journalism, comics, paintings and monumental murals. Her books Forbidden Art, Other Russias and The Last Soviet Artist are a single chronicle of how Russian society moved from a democracy to a dictatorship. The Last Soviet Artist, finished three weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, won the 2022 Free Voice award from PEN Catalan and Prix Couilles au Cul pour le Courage Artistique, Festival de BD d’Angoulême. Lomasko based in Moscow, Russia until March 2022, now in exile.