Working at the intersection of poetry, painting, and digital technologies. A canvas gets painted the same way a line gets written — fast, with spray paint, dated in the corner. In 2022 he became the first in the world to send an NFT painting into space, to the ISS.
Born in Angarsk. His path into art began with dance — until the gift of poetry unexpectedly revealed itself.
Today Vasily explores the boundary between word and image, working across street art, painting, and digital technology. His inspiration comes from people — their energy, emotion, movement — and from the word itself, a mediator between the visible and the invisible.
The "Entities Meta" series, launched in 2021, investigates the multilayered nature of the human being — its digital and spiritual dimensions. It combines street art, NFTs, and acrylic painting into a dialogue between modernity and eternity.
He has personally met Elon Musk, whose vision of the future inspires him to push the boundaries of art and technology.
The project reinterprets memory and soul in the era of digital data — a new ritual and mythology where value is born from the uniqueness of experience and cryptographic verification on the blockchain.
In March 2022, the painting "Cosmonaut" was sent on a six-month expedition to the International Space Station. In October 2022, after the completion of the 67th expedition, the canvas returned to Earth.
Following its return, the painting became a key exhibit at an NFT exhibition in St. Petersburg. The artist was later convinced to put "Cosmonaut" up for sale at a private auction.
Each entity in the collection is a manifestation of a facet of the human personality — reflecting both its light and dark sides. The collection has been growing continuously since 2021.
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A career in Russian poetry spanning more than 25 years. Author of five poetry collections and a member of the Union of Russian Writers since 2008. His poems have been translated into English, Chinese, Bulgarian, and Vietnamese, and published in over 40 periodicals worldwide.
He completed the first-ever full Russian translation of the Vietnamese epic "The Tale of Kieu" (3,254 lines) — work that earned him the Badge of Friendship between Russia and Vietnam.