Nadya Tolokonnikova (PUSSY RIOT)
POLICE STATE: Panel & Pussy Riot Siberia Performance

PUSSY RIOT SIBERIA is a new project that exists at the intersection of performance art, noise music, and visual art. Known for her art and activism in Russia, Siberian-born frontwoman Nadya Tolokonnikova grapples sonically and in a raw display of action with her identity, life in exile, war, and the continuing struggle for rights for women and LGBTIQ+ people around the world. PUSSY RIOT SIBERIA is the code name for the group, including Nadya Tolokonnikova, Max Lawton, Riley Bray, and John Caldwell. The group has previously played in museum settings for the American Folk Art Museum, OK Linz, and Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie.

Conceptual performance artist and activist Nadya Tolokonnikova is the creator of Pussy Riot, a global feminist art movement. She was sentenced in 2012 to 2 years' imprisonment following an anti-Putin performance Punk Prayer. Punk Prayer was named by The Guardian among the best art pieces of the 21st century.

Tolokonnikova's Putin’s Ashes art installation at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in January 2023 propelled her into a new criminal case and put on Russia’s most wanted criminal list. On June 21st, her debut museum exhibition RAGE, opened at OK Linz, Linz, Austria, and the eponymous performance piece performed at the Neue Nationalgalerie on July 4.

Tolokonnikova's work is in the collections of The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, The Brooklyn Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Art and Design, American Folk Art Museum, Taschen, and Beth Rudin DeWoody, among others.

Wonmi’s WAREHOUSE Programs is organized by Alex Sloane, Associate Curator, and is produced by Amelia Charter, Producer of Performance and Programs with Michele Huizar, Performance Coordinator, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.

Wonmi's WAREHOUSE Programs is founded by Wonmi & Kihong Kwon and Family.

Performances at MOCA are supported by the MOCA Fund for Performance with generous funding provided by Betsy Greenberg and The Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund.