Early life and education
Olga Lomaka was born in Krasnodar, Russia. At a young age her family moved to Moscow, where she grew up and spent her childhood. Lomaka moved to the United States in 1999 to continue her higher education and pursue her career. In 2002, she completed painting courses at Loyola University Chicago. In 2004 she graduated with honors from the George Mason University, Virginia, with a Business Administration degree. A decade later Lomaka moved to London to pursue her interests in art further and established her studio residency in Chelsea. She continued her education in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins and graduated with a BA in Painting from Camberwell College of Arts in 2015, later that year she completed art-business courses at Sotheby’s University of London. In 2017, Lomaka opened Lomaka Gallery in London, a contemporary art space that specializing in featuring emerging artists from all over the world. [1] [2] [3]
Creative career
As an artist, Lomaka is recognised for her unique pop art style. Within the realms of pop-art, Lomaka examines issues concerning the evolution of social mindfulness, influence of contemporary trends on traditional values, relationships between the sexes and psychological dependence of one’s self esteem on pre-existing stereotypes. [4] At the heart of the artists' work is a blend of global social phenomena and fundamental existential questions. Lomaka always strives to perfect her skills, experimenting with new techniques such as carving and aerography. [5] She mixes traditional materials with modern media. She constantly develops her professional’s skills in the disciplines such as installation art and sculptures, her interests are not limited to painting. Regardless of media, she stays true to her unique and recognisable pop-art style.
Viewers can often find images of famous people in her artworks such as Jude Law, [6] Anna Dello Russo, Karl Lagerfeld, and Naomi Campbell. In October 2016, Lomaka presented an installation dedicated to the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II for her solo show “Artefacts” [7] at Saatchi Gallery in London. [8] [9] [10] [11]
Lomaka’s works can be found in 25 Kadr Gallery Foundation (Moscow), Contemporary Art Center «M17» (Kyiv), Loyola University Foundation (Chicago), Erarta Museum (St.Petersburg) as well as in private collections such as Pierre Cardin’s Foundation.
From 2014 to 2016 she launched her own TV show Art & Fashion with Olga Lomaka on World Fashion Channel, [12] and hosted many guests of the cultural world like Hubert de Givenchy, fashion designer and founder The House of Givenchy, Claire Wilcox, curator of Victoria & Albert Museum, Bernard Blistène, curator of Centre Pompidou and Marta Ruiz del Árbol, curator of Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.
In 2015, Lomaka launched limited-edition sweatshirts featuring prints from a series of her paintings, Mind Parasites. [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] She has also collaborated with Vogue Fashion Night Out by producing a new collection, Mickey’s Evolution.
In 2017, she founded Lomaka Gallery [18] set in the heart of London's Fitzrovia. [19] Being an artist and an art collector, Lomaka is truly passionate about supporting artists. Lomaka Gallery is a contemporary art space that collaborates with some of the most distinctive and innovative artists working today. Operating outside conventional practice and the contemporary art system, Lomaka Gallery welcomes a broad audience to an extensive exhibition programme, supporting work of a group of artists who collectively defy categorization.
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