Police State

by Nadya Tolokonnikova

POLICE STATE documents Nadya Tolokonnikova's 10-day performance exhibition at MOCA in Los Angeles (June 2025), featuring photographs, prison letters, etchings, artwork by fellow Russian political prisoners, and documentation of the ICE and No Kings Day protests held outside the museum during her exhibit all woven into the narrative of resistance. Nadya Tolokonnikova is an artist, activist and a creator of Pussy Riot.

232 pages, Hardcover

Published December 12, 2025

About the author

NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA is an artist, political activist, and founding member of Pussy Riot. She is the recipient of The Lennon Ono Grant for Peace, and is a co-recipient of The Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought. Following her release in 2013, she opened the Mordovia office of Zona Prava, a prisoners' rights non-governmental organization. Later, she started MediaZona, an independent news service now partnered with The Guardian.