Born in Siberia, Masha Lovà developed her artistic language through an early academic art education before continuing her formation in Paris and later settling in Rome, where she currently lives and works.
Alongside her artistic practice, she deepened her education within the fashion industry — an experience that shaped her sensitivity to material, gesture, tension, and visual construction. This dual background informs a body of work that moves between delicacy and psychological intensity.
Her paintings investigate vulnerability as a permanent human condition, focusing on the unstable relationship between human and animal presence. Within intimate and emotionally charged compositions, bodies appear suspended between instinct and control, tenderness and unease. Working primarily with mixed media on canvas and paper, Lovà employs soft pastel palettes that conceal an underlying emotional tension, creating images that are simultaneously fragile and unsettling.
Recurring throughout her work, animals are not symbolic figures but emotional counterparts — presences through which intimacy, fear, dependency, and protection are explored without hierarchy.
Her works have been exhibited in galleries and independent spaces across Europe and internationally, receiving attention for their distinctive visual language and their ability to transform vulnerability into a powerful and disquieting form of presence.
Masha Lovà currently lives and works in Rome, Italy.