About

I am a painter and writer based in Paris.

Born in 1988 in the USSR, I grew up in Barysh, a small town surrounded by forest, in a Chuvash-speaking family during the last years of the Soviet Union. I left school at my late teens, hitchhiked to Moscow, and taught myself to draw from library books. For the next fifteen years I worked as a painter, photographer, illustrator and designer. In 2022 I came to France as a political refugee.

My work follows two parallel paths. Some series develop slowly over months or years through drawing, selection and revision, allowing images to emerge without a predetermined meaning. Others respond directly to the present moment, recording what is in front of me, as in Chronicles of a Heating Planet, made during the 2026 heatwaves. Across both approaches, my work observes rather than explains, returning to moments of quiet unease and the absence of reaction in the face of change.

Since 2024 I have worked primarily on an iPad. Earlier works include oil painting, watercolour, charcoal and etching. I also illustrate books and write essays in English.

My work has been exhibited at the Maison des Artistes en Exil, POUSH, Les Récollets and other venues, and is held in private collections across Europe, the United States, Japan and Latin America.

Open to exhibitions, publications, commissions and residencies.