Elena Lomakin

Who is Elena Lomakin?

Elena Lomakin is a contemporary Russian-American Artist. Her main body of work, mainly paintings, is influenced by nature and considered to be abstract expressionism.

Lomakin was born and raised in Moscow, Russia. She came to the United States at the age of 23 and settled down in San Francisco. She earned her B.A. and M.F.A. degrees in Art History from Moscow's Lomonosov University while taking numerous art courses in the applied arts of painting and composition. She continued her art studies at the San Francisco Art Institute for two years. Since 2001 she has traveled extensively in Europe, finally returning to California in 2004.