Alisa Yufa

Alisa Yufa is a St. Petersburg painter, graphic artist and book illustrator. She graduated from the Novosibirsk Art College in 2007 and from the Department of Drawing of the Herzen State Pedagogical University in 2014, and has exhibited in Russia and abroad since 2010; in 2015 she received the Youth Prize of the Government of St. Petersburg and joined the St. Petersburg Union of Artists. She illustrates children's books and stories by Sergei Dovlatov, and her mostly primitivist, ironic pictures depict everyday city life — streets, cafes and communal flats. She has also worked as production designer on short animated films.